Quote - Turns out I needed to let it cool down a tad.

That seems to be the case tonight. I started up Poser, but it got hung up for some reason. When I finally managed to cancel it and get it to close, I saw my external drive still lit up like it was "working", and then got a notification about some file with numbers and symbols in it not being able to be saved and to try saving it to another location. I would have done that, only it doesn't say where the file is from or tell me how to go about saving it to another place, LOL I had to shut the drive off and turn it back on, but after that it wouldn't view. I did notice the case was rather warm. I'm still going to move files to my desktop though. I'm currently transferring runtimes between it and my laptop, and when I'm done, I'll turn it off and try moving it to my desktop later today. Oddly enough I wasn't even frantic over the idea of having lost my runtimes. Annoyed and mildly frustrated, but nothing more. Guess I was expecting the day to come since it had given me such grief a couple months back. I took a risk by storing my files on a proven buggy drive and have no one to blame but myself if I had lost all my files. I would love to be able to buy a DVD player, or a larger external drive, or a few smaller ones. However finances are tight. I've been off work for 18 months on reduced income, so big expenditures such as computer drives are out of the question right now. I'll have to make due with what I have for the time being.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi