Hey! Thanks Guys! You've been a great help as usual and I realy appreciate it. However the big drive is terminal so it's been re-formatted and never to be trusted again. The good news is that the home movies are still on their orginal dv-tapes with the didgi-cam - I hadn't recorded over them yet! The bad news is I lost 10gigs of music but I think I still have most of that on dvd-rw. And yes! I did backup onto dvds. My c: drive is holding it together just but I backed everything up onto a spare 20gb hdd. The only thing I'm in danger of losing now is 7gigs of poser stuff. I'm now looking at getting a 400gb but I may have to upgrade to Windoze XP from win2k sp4. Word of warning though......don't trust Seagate SATAs using a pci card. They're just not that reliable. Thanks once again for all your input!

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