…whirrrr… CLICK… whirrrr… CLICK… whirrr… //silence\\
That was the noise coming from my external hard drive…. the drive with EVERYTHING of mine in digital format on it. That is the hard drive that is no longer recognized by my computer (or any other computer in the house) as a drive with data on it.500 GB of documents, images, my music compositions/recordings, my music library, applications, every-fookin-thing!!!
AAAARRRRRRGH!!!!
… the dreaded “Click of Death”
Ironic part is that this is not my first failed external drive. I’ve had others that I’ve used data recovery software on to retrieve the data… and put it on THIS drive for storage.
So… to anyone that I’ve been creating websites for, music/compositions for, or images for… sorry, but that data is either irrecoverable or may take a few weeks for me to try and retrieve it.
I think I’m going to give up on external drives and just replace my Mac G5 with a new Mac Pro with a Terabyte of storage with a RAID backup.
….eh, I can dream, can’t I? That system would only set me back $5,000. 
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Now I have to take all my spare hard drives out and build a Windows box just to be able to recover the data off this stupid external drive…..stupid computers.Who knows… maybe I’ll wake up tomorrow and it’ll work fine.
Signing off for a while….
Mark
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