Its cool now, I've replaced my dead(?) drive.
When my system recovered from a critical error, which is when this happened, 
microsoft said it was caused by my AV. Is it possible that my HDD isn't 
really dead?

If it is still chill, I'm going to throw it back in the matrix with my new 
one, so I'll have 3.
Anyone know anything about that? MSs' description was kinda dubiously 
ambiguous.

I think I'm going to get two of those nice WD 1Tb RAID 1 mirrored external 
USB units, crap, they are only $199 at tiger direct now, they would be 
perfect.

ian

"Mike Hough" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
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> "[GDS|Entropy]" <gds### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
> news:49ab6fcb@news.povray.org...
>> Sweet!
>> Thanks for the info.
>> I have to work on this machine in its current state until I can get a 
>> drive tomorrow, but its creeping slow...will I mess anything up by 
>> continuing to use it in this state, or installing stuff?
>
> Should not matter. When you mirror you are just creating a copy of the 
> current drive state.
>
> However, keep in mind that the chance of total failure was much lower with 
> two drives than you have now with one.
>
> Mike
>
>
>> ian
>>
>> "Mike Hough" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
>> news:49ab6a09$1@news.povray.org...
>>>> I have another open HDD bay, can I add another SATA HDD to the RAID1 
>>>> matrix, or do I need two more?
>>>
>>> You should be able to plug in a new drive and mirror the one that still 
>>> works to rebuild the array. Just make sure you select the right one to 
>>> mirror :)
>>>
>>> I have gone through about 3 drives in the last 4 years and just mirror 
>>> the data each time, along with occasional backups of important files 
>>> onto DVD.
>>>
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