Should have made a new thread, your problem sounds like it is completely unrelated to what we're discussing in this thread.

If you are getting the click of death on your hard disks, it is not likely related to the kernel software you've installed. Just to be sure, you're welcome to re-install the full beta13 .upgrade file (stock, without Hijack) and see if the problem goes away. I'll bet it won't.

Please click here to read about possible hard drive problems, and here to read about how to do an FSCK. Keep in mind that if you've got hard disk problems at the hardware level, FSCK isn't going to help you and in fact might cause trouble.

For further discussion on the subject, please start a new thread, I'd like to keep this thread solidly on the topic of fixing the flashing code in upload.exe.