Stilly

I'm quite secure with all my AV, AntiAdware, AntiSpyware, and safe surfing that tomorrow won't wipe out all my goodies, but -- I've also got everything on a disconnected Hard Drive that will conveniently not be needed until after...

I recently found that all the "work product" (documents, spreadsheets, email, addy books, photos, etc) from three machines that I have in normal use - all fit nicely on the one "USB packaged" hard drive that I originally got as a "data carriage" for my laptop, despite numerous files that are duplicated on all three machines.

Of course, pertinent to the original thread question, my manual registry backups are kept in my document folders, so they're included in the offloaded stuff.

I'm considering whether adding another similar drive for redundancy might be a better idea than trying to maintain backups on CDs as I've been doing. A fresh backup just of images looks like it would need about 7+ DVDs (close to half the price of a hard drive just for the blanks, and IMO unreliable as an archive). Backup to CDs is time consuming, and keeping track of what's on which is something of a chore. I'm also running out of places to stash them.

John