Originally Posted by 2v

I didn't check out knoppix but I'll tell you now that if your old hard drive crashed because of a virus and didn't just flat out fail, any program that recovers 100% of your files without choice (such as slave and master lets you do) could revive that same virus on your new hard drive..so be careful with how you approach retrieving your data unless you're sure without a doubt that your hard drive just failed due to old age.

Originally Posted by strobe

Word to backing up your stuff... I need to do that with my movies / tv shows drive, but I usually prefer putting it on dvdr after I watch them first... problem is I download faster than I can watch them. If that drive ever goes bad, I'd be so pissed. On the other hand, hard drives are so cheap nowadays.. a 1 TB drive is going for around $110 now.