I see that TwoPynts offered the outstanding advice that,

nongo (Akemi) might not be to partial at being called a he... ;']

Oooppppssss ... sorry. 

Smart planning and a good illustration of why one should have
a good backup plan in place and active.

True ... but the plan can always be improved. 

Toight I will be building a better mousetrap ... errr ... better PC. 

The key design change will be to have a RAID-1 array (20GBy) for the OS
(windows folders; Program Files folders; browser cache; and maybe the
Photoshop swap file. 

The second RAID-1 array (300GBy, or so) will be for data files. 

I hope the other news was not too bad

The other news was bad enough ... but under control and no harm done. 

Mine is still ... disfunctional.

Who said I wasn't??? ... they weren't paying close attention ... [sly grin]

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Martin