On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:47 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...> wrote: <snip> > Here is the sata/ide/usb device I'm talking about. It's $19 on newegg, check > around and you'll find it for less: <snip> > After you install your new drive and your new OS, just connect your old hard > drive via a USB port and copy your data back. If you are in a large city, you > can probably call around and find one at your local computer shop or electronics > story (Fry's, etc..) That would save you shipping time :p I'm not worried about it. I already have my important data. It wouldn't budge on the hard disk self-test my computer was telling me to do (it has one built in and it stayed at 0% for ten minutes). I think the read/write head took a nose-dive straight into the platter from what it's sounding like. Though I may end up getting a PATA <-> USB adapter at some point, I still have the hard disk from my old laptop, and never got around to grabbing the data. That laptop broke back in 2009. -- Kris "Piki" Ark Linux Webmaster Trinity Desktop Environment Packager