if I can get the flakey drive to last long enough, is there a way to copy the music over to the good drive? There's plenty of room. I'm guessing that copying just the FIDS is not going to do it...

Actually, that's exactly what you would do: Copy the FIDs over to the other drive. Assuming, of course, that you can get the second drive to last long enough. You'd have to do a database rebuild, but after that, all should be well.

Question: Are you sure that you have a bad drive? Perhaps it's one of the other possible problems other than a bad drive.