If I were Shaneo I'd be terrified by all this helpful stuff.

The thing is - it may look dead complicated written out like that, but it's actually pretty straightforward.

One way to make life simpler would be to invest in an external hard drive - you could get one to hold 40 gigabytes for about £50. Then you can copy stuff onto that, and detach the drive from the computer. That way you know when you delete stuff on Drive C there is no way the stuff on the detached hard drive can be affected. Then you could copy that back onto Drive D if you wanted, into a folder you'd call "Old Documents" or something like that.

But I would think that you could just change the name of the file on Drive D from MY Documents to something else, and that would stop the problem you mention.

If for some reason that didn't work you could just copy everything in My Documents on Drive D into another folder on Drive D. Then if the PC deleted My Documents contents on Drive D at the same time as on Drive C that wouldn't matter, because the copy would be safe in the other folder you've made for it on Drive D.