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I learned the hard way about mingling data and apps in the same folder and even the same physical or logical drive. Very, very bad thing to do. Drive failures, viruses, even accidentally deleting apps and removing folders, can all cause data loss. And the hell with the apps, it's the data we all care about! I have learned to be anal about my data and have devised a really robust strategy for safeguarding it. I have 2 physical hard drives in my main computer. The first hard drive is partitioned into APPS (C:), and DATA (E:). THe second hard drive (D: weird lettering system, gotta love MS!) is ONLY used for backup, which I run nightly for data and twice a week for boot and app files using NovaDisk. Keeping apps and data totally separate has saved my tuchus on many occasions. All I need to do in the worst case scenario is load Windows and NovaDisk, unpack the backups, and I'm back in business. And it's great for those moments when you think "Wait" as you click "Empty Recycle Bin". And, since I have several computers on my LAN, I use this box as a data server, so all data used on my LAN comes from the one drive. Each computer has a secondary drive, which receives copies of my data backups, meaning that I have 3-5 copies of my data at all times. If you only have one computer, I strongly recommend adding a second hard drive for backup or even making a logical drive to store your data on. If you use dual boot NT/9x, you can make the data volume FAT32 for easy access from either OS. Alternatively, ZIP drives are very cheap insurance provided they are used religiously. Since implementing my backup strategy, I have not lost a single byte of data through crashes, viruses, hardware failure, etc. Just my personal .02 :-) Anthony Hernandez Senior Technical Writer Curious Labs