Anna, sorry to hear that, but your tech guy is pretty much right, if it starts making funny noises it's pretty much had it. Cheers Alex -----Original Message----- From: book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anna Sent: 15 February 2014 21:14 To: book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [book_talk] Hard drive Hi, I took the hard drive in today to see if it can be fixed. The answer was a definite no. He said once it starts clicking, it's done. Anna