I had a hard drive fail on my computer (1 of 3).  It contained a good chunk of my operating system and my home directory.  Well, everything is back to normal now, and I have a new 160g drive, giving me just over a quarter terabyte of storage.  It did have trouble installing a newer version of Mandrake Linux, so I just put 9.1 back on there and it works fine.  Only 6 more days until we close on our new house.