when moving mass quantities of info from one machine to another i usually just stick hard drive into other machine and copy from there ... really not much trouble and its FAST i can swap HD's in about 10 min... in fact i have several older drives laying around crammed full of cool stuff that i may not have kept otherwise , when someone mentions updating a drive, i jump in and say... HEY CAN I HAVE THAT....lol... its free storage ... most people just toss em out or stickem in a closet anyway...i have a CDR which is a cheap method of storage... but it isnt free... and you cant cram gig's of info on CD's without many hrs of work....

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