How much time does a "clicking" hard drive have? It won't
load win XP Pro, gives invalid boot diskette msg, drives
are empty. I'm reinstalling XP now to see it I can make
an ASR disk afterwards.

It depends on the hard drive. Some hard drives were always "noisy" and some
were quite.

I would not expect the hard drive to work, even with the re-installed XP. I
would go out the get a newer hard drive and install it as my primary XP boot
disk. Once you get a stable XP boot disk, I would then put the "old" drive
as slave and the copy all the documents I can over to the new drive.

Y.

"sam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2776301c38f6d$553a57c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> How much time does a "clicking" hard drive have? It won't
> load win XP Pro, gives invalid boot diskette msg, drives
> are empty. I'm reinstalling XP now to see it I can make
> an ASR disk afterwards.

Hello

Go out and purcahse yourselg a new drive, not worth
loading the OS the drive will fail

Alvin


sam wrote:

> How much time does a "clicking" hard drive have? It won't
> load win XP Pro, gives invalid boot diskette msg, drives
> are empty. I'm reinstalling XP now to see it I can make
> an ASR disk afterwards.