Melanie, I know this is 'offtrack' a bit! If you have Norton SystemWorks: there is a neat utility called "GHOST" which will make a perfect image of a partition(will even compress it, ex: 1gig=450mg) fits on a CD!! I did this after installing OS & quite a few apps & tools, setup the look & feel of everything, then made the image (Approx. 8-15 minutes 6x-4x burner). Voila! Now! If my system crashes("God forbid"), i pop my cd in, boot from a diskette with Ghost and copy it back(5 minutes instead of 2-4 hours) for a total reinstall!!! Also andy for transferring between systems!! Hope this helps!! P.S.: If you lived in Montreal, I could be of assistance: I do this for people with my notebook & external burner...