>I just lost my c: drive this morning which was a S.M.A.R.T. Western Digital 1.2 gig. I run Windows NT Workstation and had all my apps on a SCSI drive (d:). I was dreading going back through installing NT Workstation, then my tape software and then hoping the tape would actually have my c: drive. However, I purchased a 6.4 ide Western Digital and set it to master with my old drive as slave. The WD bootable floppy disk prompted me for full automatic install which I did and noticed an option to copy second drive to the first. I did this and was up and running within 15 minutes. THIS IS THE WAY IT WAS ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE!!!!
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>Sorry, just thought I'd put in a plug for S.M.A.R.T. and WD technologies. Sure saved lots of time.

If the old (1.2G) drive was visible to your BIOS and you could copy the data off it, it probably wasn't really dead. You might want to reformat it and try to use it again (as another spare). I'd also suggest scanning ALL your drives for virii...

HTH