Originally posted by slickrenderer Anyway I am making 2 copies. One on the Samsun one on the Sony:-) I know Im probably just an odd ball but I have a hard time trusting CDs for backing up important data... have found too many CDs I have burnt to be bad later when trying to restore my data........ so what I do now is...... I bought a spare HD and when I need to restore a system....... I organize all my important files... pop the spare HD in... copy files to it..... remove spare HD and voila ;-) All I need to do after is slap the spare HD in and copy all my important files over to my new system ;-) And when ya consider the price of good reliable CDs.....enough to back up 20megs...... and how many times you may do that in a year or 2... the price of the spare HD is easily justified ;-)