Not a poser problem. You're using NT now. You will need to log on as administrator to access these files and copy them to a new directory. make sure all files are copied and that they have the same sizes. move the files in the old directory to still another directory. copy the files from the first new directory to the original directory. log back in as owner or whatever and check that the files you copied into the original directory can now be accessed. (delete redundancys at your leasure.) if it doesn't work you still have your orig in new2. there should also ba a utility called intellimover(sp.) if you can network the older computer to the new one.