That's a good guess Sherry. The good news is that large hard drives are now incredibly inexpensive. You don't say what size your drive is nor if you have more than one. But you can buy another 120 GB drive for about $80 right now. Western Digital is offering $80 rebates until the end of May on their 8MB buffer 120s. So you might want to take advantage of that to back up the clicking one and then the even better good news is that the drive that is failing is probably under a 3 year replacement warranty so you can get the manufacturer to give you a new one by contacting them directly. 8 ^ ) k On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 10:51 AM, Sherry Plummer wrote: > I think this is when it is accessing the hard drive? > > Is my hard drive dying???