Ron, yes, my system was old. I was still running a 400MHz AMD K6-2 CPU. That's why it wouldn't handle the new, larger HD. I had already updated the BIOS on that one as high as it would go. Which is why we had to get the new motherboard. So now I'm running a 1.4 gig Athlon processor and the BIOS handles the new HD just fine. I don't know what caused the new hard drive to fail. I suspect the problem was windows itself. Heck, I'm still trying to get the system to recognize my third 256 Mb RAM stick (no matter what I do the system only recognizes two of my three DIMM slots and it doesn't matter which combination of slots I use and naturally there is absolutely nothing in the manual or troubleshooting section to explain the cause and how to fix it). I actually had to format my primary partition in DOS to enable win98 to read it. Dunno why. But windows will now access the entire 120 gigs so that's behind me at least. As for restoring my files, etc., I'm doing that from the CD archives that I keep. It's taking me a while because I had filled up a 45 gig hard drive and since I'm reinstalling it all, I decided to reorganize it as well - some goes on one partition, some goes on another, etc, PLUS this was a good opportunity to weed out all the junk and useless MAT files from my Pose library. (Most of the MAT files won't work for me because I use a different organization system for the textures to keep from having to sort through umpteen bazillion folders just to find one vicky lip texture). So, instead of just throwing it all into the Poser runtime directory I put it all in a temp directory and then moved the files individually and deleted all the MAT files (otherwise I would have wound up with 350 pose folders). Gawd, I hate MAT files, especially when they come in an .exe instead of a .zip. Kate