Awwww, c'mon -- I got my CD-R for $125 on ebay, new-in-box. And then found out I could have gotten one locally for under $100. They're really not that expensive anymore.

Besides, anybody who can afford an empeg must be pretty rich to begin with, right? ;-)

Seriously, how many hours do you think it will take you to recover all your music? I'll betcha that if you valued your time at even $2.00 an hour the CD-R would look like a bargain. Besides, Jeremy, you're enough of a computer geek to know that it's not a question of whether a hard drive will fail -- only a matter of when. If I were to fire up my time machine, go back to mid-November and offer you my CDR for twice what I paid for it, knowing what you know now I think you'd jump at the chance.

Good luck with your recovery, and remember the Prime Directive of computing: Back Up Early and Often. (OK, so I just made that up. But it SHOULD be the Prime Directive! ;-)

tanstaafl.

"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"