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[twilightvespers]

I got up at 7am this morning. Discounted many failed fishing trips in the past, this is the earliest I've gotten up on a Sunday morning since I was a paperboy

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[knowble]

hmm.. how long have you had the drive itself? I'd try partition magic, might want to check out Symantec's website to see if there are any diagnostic tools there as well.

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[twilightvespers]

I guess I've had it since May or June.. I'm going to try Norton/Symantec as well, thanks.

[sinisterputty]

Okay, first off... it's hard to hear this, but your hard drive will probably die. It's almost always due to heat. The good thing is that 120gb hard drives are only $129 now, so it's no big deal. :) I'd get a new one and copy everything over. After that, you can use it as a secondary drive, and you'll probably get another month of use out of it before it starts doing the DEATH CLICK

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[twilightvespers]

Yeah, SIGuardian uses S.M.A.R.T. and every day it tells me that the hard drive is going to die on that very day. I've been using computers since I was a young'un and I've never had a hard drive die on me :~(

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[sinisterputty]

You know, I haven't had a drive die on me either until 2000. Then I had 3 frickin' drives die in a row, each 8-12 months apart.

I figured out that it was the heat. I had to stack them all on top of eachother cause I bought this awesome case with no room in it.

All the new (7200rpm) drives are really sensitive to heat. Buy a fan. :)

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[twilightvespers]

I have 5 of them, what the fuck (and only two hard drives, not stacked). How many fucking fans do I need?