Thanks for the replies, I bought a 160 gig on sale for $59 (after 2
freekin' rebates) & have replaced the 5 year old 40. I dunno, seems to
me hdd's used to last longer than 5 years, oh well...

Dan

JW wrote:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:02:12 -0500 Dan
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Just now, I was using Zone alarm to virus scan a particular large
folder, & the clicking occurred perhaps 6 times in rapid succession.


As other have said, it looks as though your drive may be dying. I would
check your system event logs to see if the errors are severe enough to be
logged by the OS.