Hi Burr, kind of a bummer way to start out the new year!

Hopefully though your drive is fine, so that would mean no data loss at least and I guess you were talking a bit ago about when you were going to upgrade to a new machine? I guess the time has come now...

- Michael

No worries of data loss. I'm pretty stickly on things I need to keep. My production machines dont house any data! Just the install.

I am running into the new phenomenon of optical disks failing due to the use of "Organic inks" as a writing surface. One thinks they have a good DVD backup or CD video and 2 months later.....Poof! Nothing.

Must......check....backups!!!! :)