"Peter Duniho" wrote

That said, the OP didn't actually ask here *what* to do. He simply asked
what the funny noise his drive was making *meant*. All of the subsequent
advice offered with respect to *what* to do was unsolicited.

New symptoms. Now it isn't doing squat. It might have been a motherboard
problem. One part of it was getting very warm. I suspect the power supply,
too. Who knows! Gads!

That being said, this is a personal PC, and 90% of what is on that drive is
newsgroup letters I have saved, and some Internet links I have bookmarked.
The other drive has pictures and stuff like that, and it is backed up. The
drive in question is not backed up.

My son is about to graduate from App State, and part of his major is knowing
what to do with something like this. He might even have software for
recovering some of the data; I'm not sure.

I am capable of doing some trouble shooting, but I think I'll lay back, and
put some of my investment to work, if you know what I mean! g
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Jim in NC