So I lost 17 gigs of mp3s…I can get them back…I lost a bunch of saved games…I can play again. I didn't lose my pictures some of which I couldn't get again so all in all not so bad.

The only think I need to do now is find out why my 80 gig drive will not so up in windows. When I boot into partition magic it shows up as unknown disk type and cannot be formatted or changed in anyway. The bios should the drive correctly but windows will not assign it a letter. Grrrrrrrrr. I want the 80 gigs back. Ohh well I go a nice clean machine to play with again and fill up with crap.

congratz to mycophile on the employment...hope I get lucky soon.