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My windows partition seems to have gone to hell. Or maybe it’s a hardware issue.
Windows stopped playing audio CDs, so I decided to reboot. Whereupon it told me the boot sector was corrupted.
I booted into Linux and did an FSCK on the Windows partition, which told me the boot sector didn’t match the backup. I tried to copy the backup over the original, but it gave me all kinds of IO errors and now the drive is making tapping noises every few minutes.

Luckily Linux works fine, but it’s root partition is on the same physical drive as Windows. And that’s my big drive. I don’t have the money right now to replace it.