Rock on :) I had a 30 gig D slave hard drive die completely unexpectedly, and did lose some .pz3's and lots of poser installs 2 weeks ago. Not 3 days later, my 30 gig E slave drive of approximately the same age as the D drive showed a file system error on bootup. I ripped that thing outta the comp so fast it left a black streak in the air. Set it carefully on a shelf and went to the local PC Club and got a WD 160gig 8MB cache HD for $99.99 the next payday. After formatting the 160 gigger, I reinstalled the dying drive. I got lucky - it immediately was recognized by the bios, didnt go thru the file system check on bootup, and had enough life in it to properly transfer all 30 gigs of data (it had 3.1MB of freespace) to the new 160 gigger. Step 2 is to complete backing up everything thats on the new drive to remote CD media (wonders how much dvd burner and blanks cost.....) Pretty hectic overall, but on that E drive were some completely irreplacable videos of me playing onstage with my band at local bars. Everyone on this list would have heard a remote screaming from the west coast if id lost those! So, lurkers of this thread, whens the last time you (yes, YOU, I see all a youse huddled in the shadows over there) did a backup burn or considered the age of your current hard drives?