Well one would have to let the HDD get that bad to begin with, the only hard drive I ever had go south on me, actually gave me a warning to shut it down it was failing in windows and to back it up right away.... I never knew windows did that, but it must be something they added in the vista version, hopefully 7 and 8 have it also, it was a neat feature and it worked.... So I shut the machine down and put a drive in off my shelf and loaded windows on it, then went online and bought a new drive, and when the drive came in I ran hirens boot cd, and ran that program on the failing drive called hdd regenerator.... Hdd Regenerator made the drive stable enough to image it too my new drive, and I was back in business once again.... Lucky I guess, but I don't store much on my main machine hard drives, it is just the fact that they take forever to set up the way I like them setup, and I figured if I didn't have to start from scratch that would be better for me....
I keep all information that is important to me on external usb hard drives, or I copy the files to my laptops if it is something I really don't want to lose.... I figure the chances of all 3 machines going bad at same time are a billion to 1.....
