Joey:  I know my question may have sounded a little silly.  But, hard drive data can many times be extracted and then reloaded onto the new drive.  Did it several times on computers of the company I owned.  However, with a damaged drive that probably not possible.<br /><br />I&#39;m saving all my important data off-site at Carbonite.  Also, have a lot of our pictures and video backed up on an external hard drive.  I hope I never need to use either of these systems, but feel better knowing they are in place.