All HD, especially laptop HD, will fail. Nothing you can do about it except for 2 things.. GOod backups and save your pennies for the next new one. I swapped mine out with a 7200 80Gig Hitachi HD(formally of IBM)
igerm: all hd - especially laptop - will fail? sorry, but can you maybe elaborate... i have used many, many hds that never failed for years and years... (but yes, i have also experienced hd failures...)