I NOW use Datakeeper by Powerquest (the guys that do Partition Magic). It automatically backs stuff up to a second HD on your PC, removable storage device or network. Fantastic software, and worth the small investment. There are others out there too I imagine, but this one does the trick for me quite nicely.

When I went through my files I also found that only about 5 or 6 GB of it really was precious to me, so backing that stuff up to a DVD every month is a snitch once I had my backup sets defined.

Another issue.. SEPARATE DATA FROM PROGRAMS VIA SEPARATE HDs\PARTITIONS!!!! So few people do this and store everything on C:\, then cry bitterly when Windows corrupts itself, they get a virus or they reinstall Windows without backing everything up. It makes allot of sence for many other very practical reasons (like being able to restore ghost images of your OS). Here's how:

http://www.blackoutaudio.co.uk/porta...ight=partition