>HA HA! The ironies . . . > The alternative, since you are planning to use one of the 2 extra drives as a back-up disk, is to back up to DVD first, then transfer your files, making sure everything is working the way you want it, then reformat the drive you are going to use for back-up and use Carbon Cloner to transfer the data to your spankin' clean back-up disk...Doug --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>