woohoo! done patching (windows, at least... patching WoW will probably take the rest of the night :-/)
now I need to see if I can ghost this hard drive onto my Raptor. the SATA driver disk that came with my motherboard was defective, so I did the install on an IDE disk I had laying around. now that the SATA drivers have been installed and downloaded from the net, I should theoretically be able to ghost from the IDE -> SATA raptor and have it boot up fine 

 (hopefully)