As I mentioned in another thread, my main computer at home picked up a virus from somewhere (god knows where -- I'm very careful). After I re-partitioned and re-installed XP Pro, one of the six drives installed on the computer crashed; Windows reported it as partitioned, but unformatted. I'm in the process of recovering the data from it now so, aside from the inconvenience, nothing critical was lost. However, I can't make up my mind whether to replace the crashed drive or simply repartition and reformat. I know that most people will say, "better safe than sorry," but money is very tight right now and if I can limp along with it for a while, I'd prefer to do that. I don't know whether the crash was the result of the virus (which appears to have been some keylogger trojan that interfered, rather dramatically , with Explorer), or a hardware failure that just happened to coincide with the OS reinstall.

Suggestions?