Jerome Fine replies: As Bob Lefleur also suggested, I recommend at least Norton Ghost V7.0, although V6.5 is not bad. If you are using a Windows compatible file structure, then Ghost Explorer works with Ghost images in the same manner as Windows Explorer - although it has a few drawbacks, the least of which is that when Ghost images are combined, don't expect all the date information from the file to be preserved. On the other hand, if the complete compressed Ghost image is less than the capacity of one CD-R, you can save it for long term archival storage with ease. And with a bit less ease if the compressed Ghost image will be larger since Ghost has the option to "-split=650" which produces as many files of 650 MBytes are are needed. I have been using Ghost V7.0 for almost a year with the option "-FCR=FileName" that creates a CRC file at the same time which allows the user to verify that the backup has been done correctly BEFORE the original source image is destroyed when the source image has a Windows/DOS file structure. Ghost V7.0 also compresses on the fly at about 2 to 1 without a great deal of extra time. On my system, I can do a backup in about 6 minutes of an EIDE drive which holds about 2.2 GBytes of files and produces a compressed image of about 950 MBytes. The recovery takes about 3 minutes. This is on a 750 MHz Pentium III although there is an UDMA 100 EIDE controller with a throughput of about 30 MBytes per second or about 2 GBytes per minute. Note that although the documentation requires that Ghost V7.0 be run under DOS, I have run it under Windows 98 SE as long as the source device is NOT the C: drive. If the C: drive is being backed up or restored, then I always BOOT first from the A: floppy. Also, in this case, my UDMA 100 EIDE controller is NOT compatible with a CDROM drive when Ghost V7.0 is running, so I always copy any files that were on a CDROM to a D: or E: drive while the CDROM device driver is active, then BOOT again without CDROM support and run Ghost V7.0 with only the C:, D:, and E: drives active. For drives with any file structure, Ghost V7.0 can make an exact copy of the drive and restore every block in the exact same location. With SCSI drives or drives where the controller does the bad block mapping, this allows the image to be restored on the same size or larger drive. When the bad blocks are handled by the OS, then the restore must be done on the identical drive if you did not start with a Windows/DOS file structure. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.