I know how you feel it happened to me a few times with inadequate backups. I hope you get it going again or can recreate it; then go online to Acronis.com and get True Image. I made a true image of my disk and stored it on my WD portable drive. Last week I got the blue screen of death on w2k and had it all restored in one hour. All I lost was a few freebies and some art I had created since my last backup increment. Disk images can be created on any size dirve providing they are large enough and even CD's or DVD's but it will take a lot of these. Incidently you get the exact HD you had before Passwords and serial #'s and software too. Goodluck