Al,

Thanks for such good advice. My husband Jerry usually helps me with all this stuff, but he is more into Linux these days, has less experience with NT than with W98, and I don't think he has worked with W2K at all.

Maybe I can teach him a thing or two? Hehehe!



>In NT (and presumably W2K) you have the option to create "emergency recover diskettes" which are supposed to address this situation. I've never had occasion to use them, so I don't know how well they work.
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>Your backup idea sounds better. However, rather than merely "copying" files to your secondary hard drive, be sure to use the built-in backup applet, which is capable of backing up the registry as well. You can set your secondary HD to be the backup target.
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>The W2K setup CD is bootable if your system supports booting from a CD. In that case, you could boot W2K Setup, blow away your big HD, reinstall W2K, then restore from the backup on your other HD.
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>If you converted to NTFS on your secondary HD, you could set it to use compression, thereby letting you back up more info to it. If memory serves, the W2K backup applet doesn't support software compression.