Thanks Caretaker,
I backed it up yesterday and downloaded a free program that monitors the health of your drives called Acronis Drive monitor (I highly recommend). It's showing that I'm experiencing critical errors every day so it's just a matter of time. I'm researching a replacement drive right now so hopefully it will arrive before the big crash. I hate when that happens. Fortunately I'm a geek and have two other computers to play with if my LT goes down, he, he. It's just such a pain reloading everything as you know....
Gene