Not a nice thing to have happen CoastalDriver. I had a massive HDD failure about 8 or 9 years ago and lost quit a bit of stuff that I left to long to back up. Fortunately my most important stuff was backed up on CD's. That warning appears on my screen about every 30 minutes and I have noticed that Windows is not responding very well right. FSX works normally, so I did a few small flights yesterday.

Today I get working on replacing the drive and reinstalling A LOT of stuff. Unlike the days of Windows 98 SE, when I backed up everything and then reformatted and reinstalled it all every two months, it's a lot harder with the newer system and large HDD's. I tend to do it once a year.

Mark