Hello again,
I have kept my messages seperate so as to make things easier!  I am having difficulties with my main machine, P166mmx, 64mb ram, 2x 2 GB HDDs.  Last weekend my machine told me that I had problems on one of my drive partitions.  I did the scandisk thing and it threw up huge numbers of bad sectors.  After this I scandisked all of the other partitions and had the same problem with the other partition on the same drive.  I decided to back up what I could (lost all the data on the original problem partition) and then fdisked back to one partition and reformatted etc.
This morning the machine made almighty grinding noises on boot up.  I switched off, checked the fan etc and then rebooted it on its side (its a tower).  It booted up fine and now seems to be running quietly again.  
Can I have some expert advice?  Is that HDD about to go to disk heaven?  
Cheers Nicki

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