<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">yes, but sometimes hard drives just get...flaky...before they die. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I also remember a tip that worked when my iPod was showing the Sad iPod Face: tapping the ipod "gently" against the desk and then resetting it...would maybe "unstick" something (Yes, and probably wipe out some sectors and ruin a read head, I know). </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 20, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Matt Gregory wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Still seems strange because the click-click of a bad hard disk is, like was said, pretty distinctive, but shouldn't go away depending on which computer you're syncing with. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><BR><BR>matt.</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>