alright got all the hardware i need now
formatted the bad drive.. now im using norton ghost to make a backup of my primary drive on the shitty one (doesnt hurt to have a backup even if its on a half dead drive) sooo thats got about 12hrs left
so hopefully tomorrow night ill be able to pull all this shit out and put my new hard drive in and start copying all my shit over to it
what a fucking mess this all has been lol