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>And it also nice to hear that others are in the same as I am even if they haven't made the journey yet. :-)
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>Reading this thread with interest. I ordered my Beta CDs Nov 14th, one day after it came out officially, and still haven't received it. Guess their shippoing Dept is swamped.
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>Do you have/recommend any utilities to ghost a drive? I have backups of everything of importance in two other drives but it will still be a pain to have to re-install Win2k and everything else from scratch should it be needed (it's a toy system, not production development anyway but...)

Norton Ghost - http://www.ghost.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal

Backups are nice, but you have to get the OS and restore software working first and sometimes that can be a PITA.