Win XP Home. My Maxtor 40 gig HDD went caput yesterday. Took it to my tech guy and he said non recoverable which I had pretty much determined. I was on internet and went to a page on Amazon.com, screen locked up, drive started clicking, and all was over. Can a virus do that, or just bad drive? Main question: I want to add a second hard drive (non-RAID) as a back up storage device. That way if main HDD becomes corrupted or fails, I will have the back up on the second HDD. Do I format second with XP disc as I do the main HDD and install the OS, then copy data, or is there a better/easier way? Thanks