Hi Richard, yes, you can back up to wherever you like, but you'll need sighted assistance to restore. When you use dvd's you just boot with them, but if you save the image to another drive you'd need to make an image for dos recovery cd, and boot with that. You'd then need to tell it where the image is, and where you want to put it. John. ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Godfrey-McKay To: Access-Uk@Freelists. Org Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 11:40 PM Subject: [access-uk] IMAGE FOR WINDOWS Hi, Have just started playing with this, and wondered if using a large USB drive to back up and restore to might be easier than fiddling about with DVD's? Any thoughts welcome. Thanks, Richard Richard Godfrey-McKay Telephone: 01738-445 880 Mobile: 07791 452 593