Yes, I did fall for that and my copies of Partition Magic and the other similar thing turned out to be so old they would not touch a 160gig drive, so I swapped the drives a different way round.

The backup killed my original machine totally! After a whole rest of the day yesterday, it turned out to be the motherboard, but a friend had given me his Athlon 2000 and board, and after the rest of the rest of yesterday (up to 2 am) I had that nearly right but no PCI bus and the drivers seemingly missing.

Thismorning got me nowhere - but my optical drives disappeared in Windoze (still there in the BIOS).

Just after a sandwich I had decided to format C again (!) when I hit the wrong button, did an over-the-top by mistake, and it found the network and the optical drives so apart from a few bits of installation I'm back!!

My old D drive (the 160 gig one) is still in the Piii933 as a slave but I can get at it up the network.