At this point Im so sick of buying stuff for this computer, I dont have any DVDs to write to. And I am not going to buy some. I see what you are saying and how that might be easier. But I am wondering If my method will work or if its a bad idea? I can re install all the programs I have, I just dont want to lose my pics,videos,documents, stuff I cant get back. Ive got a file of all that stuff and its only about 40gb, so it would be more like 3 transfers.