Multiple Issues arising from a Lightning induced Electricity Surge

[DeepC]

Folks,

After the fun and games with my PC over the past few weeks (chronicled here uner various threads) my hard drive is dying a lingering death due to electical storm damage on Monday night.

I have brought a new Hard Drive (Western Digital 8MB Cache, 120GB) to replace my Western Digital 60GB version.

Xp was failing to boot under the old system since a power spike/shutdown event on Monday. It displayed a warning that the Hard Drive was unstable and to back up my data and buy a new hard drive.

I installed the new drive on the master connector on the IDE ribbon (CSEL) and the old one as a slave. I attempted last night to ghost across the 30Gb stored on my old drive but it failed about 5 hours into the operation with a sector error. This morning I elected to resinstall Windows XP and everything on the clean new drive. Windows XP installed correctly but Office 2002 XP will not accept my kosher Activiation Keys. This is causing me a major headache.

I have attempted to copy across vital and other files from the old disc but it will not read the My Music file. That is quite precious to me though not totally irreplaceable.

So the questions so far are.....

Any ideas why Office won't accept my activation key?

How can I demand read the My Music File and salvage some of the contents?

What and where are the files that Outlook 2002 stores the email messages?

Any help very very greatfully received.

DeepC

Edited to add:
My system is based around a AMD Athlon 1700+ XP Process on an ASUS Motherboard.