I have a MB from about 4 years ago. About the time SATA tech came out. I bought a new HDD because the old one had a bad SMART and was going to crash any day.

I spent the last 2 days trying to get the damn thing to work. In my attempt to get my drives in order my external HDD was formatted.

I lost about 3 years worth of files that are gone. All my work files are gone.

As a result I did get the damn SATA drive with a new copy of XP installed on my computer but now I have two blank HDD's.

I await the flaming from all of you.