Well it finally happened. My kids all got the flu. One decided to take a TV into her room. The other had a vaporizer and decided to plug in a space heater as well. I was running chkdsk when, pop! the breaker blew. I turned things off and reset the breaker, then I rebooted. Everything came up and the bios found my hard drives then the progress bar showed up, got about two clicks along, and hung. I rebooted again, same thing. I pressed delete and changed the bios and saved. It booted to the same place then jammed. I ran a boot disk and chkdsk. It immediately started turning up errors. I could never get past step 2 of 5. Now I have a 200mb drive with two partitions. I've completely reinstalled windows and most of my software. The good news is my Bryce files were on a second partition on the old drive and I have recovered all of them with the exception of a christmas thing I have somewhere else. The bad news is the last year of my other stuff including all my documents and about 40 albums I ripped to MP3 are on the other partition. Does anyone have a favorite recovery program to recommend? I've had norton 3 2000, 2001, 2003 system works. I think norton recover faded about 2001 in favor of the disk image and protected file recycle bin thing. I don't have 2005 yet so now's the time to buy it or something else if it's better. This is an NTFS format by the way.