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To: j g cordes who wrote (6727)	3/14/1999 1:00:00 PM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Good Morning, Jimbo --- Not too good for you however, it appears. As I'm not a proficient tech, just a patcher of my stuff, this is only a guess, and not too educated a one, at that. I'll put my money on the secondary Quantam having a stuck disc and the clicking is inside the unit. If possible, disconnect the scuzzi and the Quantam and see if it'll boot from the WD primary, if not then try hooking up the secondary Quantam with the primary disconnected. Good luck to you, ol bud and I hope some more competent help will arrive. Most of my best advice is on how to cut down your big tree and you already did that .... ggggg Nemer

To: j g cordes who wrote (6727)	3/14/1999 7:37:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>> Clicking drive The drive is probably toast, but conceivably not. Here are my suggestions: 1. Open PC and if necessary remove drives from case but keep them hooked up. THe name of the game is to find out where the trouble is. 2. Boot PC and figure out which drive is clicking. 3. Once you've isolated the drive, try to boot PC without it. If you get clicking from another drive, you're probably in luck. It is most likely cable or (less likely) motherboard. Whichever, replace and you have a good chance of recovering data. 4. Suppose drive is bad, let it sit for a day or two, then reconnect it to same or different PC with another drive ready to copy your essential data on to. Sometimes these drives come alive until they heat up a bit, so you may have a few minutes to a couple of hours to copy essential data. Worth a try if the data is irreplaceable. If it doesn't work and the data is valuable, there are various alternatives. Another topic. 5. Once you've got off the data you can get, or are through with it whatever, get the drive replaced under warrantee. 6. Institute regular data backups so you NEVER have this problem again. Good luck.