Relax, your hard drive is fine. Those noises it's making is perfectly normal, really. I only have a Pentium 1, 200mhz with 32mb Ram and a trident 1mb video card...and a project that I'm working on right now has 90 objects in it at a total of 4.6 million polygons. But, I have found it is the number of objects that take forever over polygons. Another Bryce project I have has 1,602 objects at only 408,000 polygons and that sucker takes a longer to load & probably 15 minutes to save...all much longer than the other project that has 10 times more polygons. To sum up...your pc & hard drive is fine, and yes turn off that nano-preview! That's about the best thing you can do, that and have something other to do than sit in front of your pc while it groans, a watched pot never renders. Agent Smith

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