I have a PII-300 using Win98 and a 6.4 gig Western Digital HD. Everything
has been running fine until last night when I tried to use the computer
after it had been idle for a few hours. Everything was locked up so I hit
reset. When Windows tried to run scandisk after the reset it would go to a
certain point of the surface scan and stop with a clanking noise coming from
the HD. If I hit reset again and cancel scandisk,  it boots normally but
does this every time I try to run scandisk.  Any ideas? Is my HD dying?  The
HD is only about 6 months old but I did swap it from another computer to
this one and did a complete reformat, but it had been acting fine for the
couple of weeks since.  Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks.

Gary Raynes

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