I forgot to mention i have also got windows Vista ultimate x64 on a different partition (same hard drive as the XP) the rest are on a different hard drive A.what humour, wasnt trying to be funny, that is how my partitions are setup B.I am a serious user n you dont know me so that comment was pretty much pointless Woah!! i understand about keeping documents,OS Backup and obviously the OS's but thats way to many paritions and seems like alot of work and complicated, sometimes its best to keep things simple and that really isnt, at all. Like why not weekly instead of daily, ur keeping the important stuff seperate anyway so you wont lose anything or just back after youve done something major, ie. tweaks software install so there is less chance of backup virus n stuff (even though u have an AntiVirus but still anything is possible). Thats just over complicated things. A And whats the point of having 2 windows XP Pro just incase 1 fails u have made a daily backup so why not use that otherwise the backup partition becomes useless because your just logging onto the other windows to just replace the windows folder or whatever. Sorry to say