Hi List, I would like to explain a little I did have my laptop reformatted in December mainly because my former ISp Freeserve hung around in Outlook express it was imbedded and whilst said to be cosmetic I did not want it. regarding my Desktop I do have an External self powered Hard Drive which does a daily back up at 6 pm. I did have a new Hardrive in 2006 due to failure of the one I had it was 18 months old George said they should last 5 years. the real disaster took place due to the Viglen Engineers putting Xp Professional on my Home Desktop and I not knowing, but couldn't register Jaws since it was Jaws Home after this 3 Engineers made a mess of putting it right 4 if you count a local company, even a Rnib volunteer couldn't understand so I had to have the new Hardrive reformatted by a friend on this list who from a distance never having seen my pc said Ghosting is no good it is Copying send the lot to me and I will have a go Please understand I am alone and kept buying higher versionsof Jaws thinking the Floppy Disk was burnt out and if several Engineers made a mess of it well be warned to add an extra warning one thing was very hard and that was the interceptor that only got fixed this year, it was the interceptor for Lunar. Hope this may clarify a little Dorothy.