>Thanks for the notice. Rather ominous!!!!! Did you report this to the >TechTools people? No, I did not. I know the first question they would ask is "How" and I couldn't remember after spending two days reconstructing all my files -- I backup only data and not programs that I can install. >This makes me want to hold on to Norton, and even scares me >a bit there. I have data backups, but not complete Hard Drive Backups, and >I'm sloppy with those. I've been so lucky in that respect. Brrrrrr! > >Joe Wilkins Joe: IMHO, the best back-up is another hard drive. So, I just copy one drive to the other and watch TV until it's done. I used to use zip drives (100 meg), but it just got to be too difficult to divide things into 100 meg segments. There was an excellent back-up utility that I used to use called Disk Fit, but they stopped upgrading it. tedd -- http://sperling.com/