Call me old-fashioned, but I like to know when my hard drive is active. That’s partly so I know when Windows has more or less finished its boot activity (which, on one aging machine, takes 7-8 minutes ...

So yeah, I lend the g/f my laptop while I am fixing her computer, and I get this phone call about an hour ago:<BR><BR>"Your laptop isn't working"<BR>Me: "What's it doing?"<BR>"The screen isn't turning ...

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