Hey, Dandello - unfortunately, no. Stuart has a 'gizmo' which he said should be able to locate the necessary data on the old hd and transfer it to the new one.
Unfortunately, when he hooked it all up, the old hd was inaccessible. I don't know what caused it to die, but whatever it was, it's made it impossible to retrieve anything from it, it seems.
It's going to take a few months to piece together the data I've lost, I suspect. Fun, fun, fun....
Thanks for the other info. I'll check that out.
LabRat