is clicking away:err: and shutting off on it's own...is my hard drive dieing:crying:

That could be one of many causes for why your computer is doing this. Could be a virus for all you know.

Sounds like the Sasser virus...

Back up regardless. I had a drive in my laptop fail this summer.

-spence

txs.. guy's,,I'll take to my doc's an get a flu shot for it...I backed everything up after the last time around:mad:

Take a hammer to the Hard Drive before throwing it out, or put the hard drive on top of your alternator, start your car and then in a minute, toss the hard drive out...

Magnets in alternator make sure your hard drives' contents are FUBAR!

The clicking sounds like the hard drive very bad. Try Start - run - cmd When the command prompt opens type chkdsk /F /R It may say that it can't do it now do you want to when you reboot type y exit then reboot. This will try to repair your hard drive. I would burn any data you want to keep to disk, get another hard drive and rebuild.

before throwing out any hard drive auto clave it. autoclave (http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/)