[Novalug] Hardware symptom -- dead drive?

[Jay Hart]

>
>  	I was warned a few weeks ago that my oldest machine's
> hard drive might go any time; not wanting to trouble with
> replacing it, I copied off all the data I wanted, and offered it
> on vtluug's forum. I got one nibble and one taker -- who never
> bothered to get back in touch to arrange a pickup.
>
>  	So I've been treating it more or less as a normal
> machine. Till now.
>
>  	It will still boot from a CD. But if you try to boot it
> with the drive empty, it hammers away at an alarm bell,

What do you mean by "drive empty"??????

Jay

> eventually displaying the one word "GRUB," but doing nothing else
> except to keep up the alarm.
>
>  	I'm guessing that means the drive finally died. Right?
>
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