back to backing up...

you may recall a few months ago i had a major problem with my lacie 160 gb firewire drive. i had been using it as my primary storage space for my rather bloated digital music\itunes collection. you'll remember the disk suddenly failed to the point where i could no longer access the data the traditional way. jeff and myself put a lot of time into recovering the data and i was obliged to purchase a secondary internal ide 120 gb hard drive on my home pc to act as my new primary music storage location, thusly moving my lacie fw hd to role of backup. this system worked well for a number of weeks when suddenly i began getting errors when running my .bat file that backs up the data. i began seeing corrupt files and xcopy would not work right. running a chkdsk on the lacie revealed about 2k worth of bad sectors, which may not seem like a lot, but was enough to cause problems. i finally decided to ship the lacie back to the shop for repair\replacement and i recieved a tested refurb yesterday via federal express. i set up the drive last night, ran chkdsk (0 bad sectors!) formatted it to ntfs, (i tried fat32 but it would have stuck me with 5 32 gb partitions - yuck) and copied all 60 gb of data back over. so....after 10 days of running with no backup system in place (something i vowed i would never do after last time), i am back to backing up my music. i know i obsess over this stuff...i can't help it. more later...