Last Nov/Dec I had a 20Gb Fujitsu laptop HD fail. The first indication was excessive churning while it tried to read files, then files getting corrupted.. .. .Eventually the bad clusters were happening damn near as fast as scandisk could find them. Even running scandisk a number of times kept locating new bad clusters.. .. .Finally the disk's SMART monitoring popped up a failure warning.. .. .Luckily for me the drive was less than 12 months old. Only just - the warranty lapsed in Jan!. .. .One refund later & I bought an IBM 30Gb as a replacement. The best news is that the price had dropped significantly so I saved about 60 or 70 quid, gained and additional 10Gb AND I get a fresh 1 year warranty! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="cool.gif" /> . .. .Now if only I could get the damned inverter board on my laptop screen's flouro backlight to stop overheating & forcing a reboot to return a viewable image. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />. . . . <small>[ 27 March 2002, 20:28: Message edited by: Tinstaafl ]</small>