On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Jim Robertson wrote: > Thanks for your quick response. I've heard of the DeskStar's alternate > appellation (Deathstar). This is the first one of perhaps half a > dozen I've > used that's failed, if indeed that's the problem. I've got a dual 1.25 MDD and my hard drive (also an IBM Deskstar) died a few months ago. Almost the same symptom as you have. Many of the apps seemed to hang giving me the impression that it was a software problem. My second internal also was not mounting every time I rebooted. Once the clicking started I knew otherwise and started to back up my data. I replaced the defective IBM drive and now my second internal is behaving properly.