:There's one possibility that I think that hasn't been addressed yet.  Why
:not buy another physical drive?  They're very dependable(of course), not
:affected by click-of-death, etc.  Most people don't use all the the


Zen said that the click of death was a fatal "Design" flaw.  Nope,
it was a construction flaw, and does not occur in a) the older drives (such
as what i have) and b) the newest drives.  If you bought a zip drive
now, you would not have to worry about that..

Zip drives are portable, and i've never had a disk fail on me yet.
On the other hand, they're annoying slow (especially the parallel
port version) and the disks are bulky.  But: it's cheap.  This is
the best thing about it...