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Do you know that sound? If you do, you must hate that sound.
That sound is the death rattle of a hard drive. More specifically, the drive in my Dell Latitude laptop where I keep all my data.
Chitter Chitter Clackity Clack
That is the also a death rattle of a hard drive. In this case, the external firewire drive where I keep my backups of all my data.
I'm going to go cry now. Maybe into a glass of scotch. The Laphroig I think. 
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Shwwwsh, do you know what that is? The sound of an incomming rocket that is way, way too close. You normally hear this sound as you are diving to the ground and asuming the fetal position. If after that you hear a big boom, then life is fine and you just need to brush the dust off.
If you don't hear the boom, we have a memoral service for you.
Hmmmmm, hard drive, mortar......
So far it's a good day in Mosul, Iraq
Thank you for your concern.
Bruce - just keep ducking
Even though the laptop bay drive isn't accessible, nor is the backup drive, it isn't that bad.
All business stuff is duplicated on a server, its backup, and my partner's machine. Quarterly, we backup the backups, so even [older] personal stuff is available from there.
Mostly, I'm losing email, as my Outlook's pst file, which has been acting flakey since November [Outlook insisting on startup, that the pst file wasn't closed properly] is mostly what I'm loosing, except...
I had just moved all personal email onto our new IMAP server, and my partner has the content of most business email. So, I'm really not in bad shape.
I'm just waiting for Dell to replace the drive, which was under warranty.
I still haven't decided if it's worth the money to have the dead drive "resurrected" by someone like DriveSavers. They physically remove the platter(s) from the drive and do whatever is necessary to get as much data off as they can.
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