Windows is all reinstalled. I was hoping I could recover some of the contents of the old hard drive as it hadn't died completely, just had some corrupt files that screwed my Windows install. But no, as per usual the filesystem had completely collapsed and all that was left were a few folders with gibberish names. So I reformatted it. It's still in but I think I'm probably going to fix that in the near future. I just don't see any real use for it when it keeps doing that, and on an unpredictable (if infrequent) basis. This led me to be very irritated with those games that put their saved games in the My Documents folder. With the exceptions of Oblivion, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, and Sin: Episodes, all my actual game installs (or nearly so) were on the other drive, which is perfectly intact. So while a few of them needed reinstalling because Windows installs are stupid and store important information in the registry instead of in a file (possibly encrypted, if need be) in their install directory, they were otherwise entirely unharmed. The ones that save to My Documents lost all saves, which includes games like F.E.A.R., a game which I will probably never finish at this point as I'd made it like 85% of the way through and I have no desire to replay nearly the whole game just to beat it. Please, people, put all components of a program install inside the same folder like they do on Macintosh. Y'know, the sensibly designed OS. 