[ikthius]

cheers guys, on the fly would be good, but not essential, mainlly dont want to lose the bulk of my images and songs. songs can get put back as I got the CD's but thats time consuming.

Photos however would be greatly lost. thats why I am looking for a good backup utility just to back up to a new internal drive, as it is neater.

Will have a look at joglynne's solution when I get the drive.

thanks

Rob, I could not find the standard windows backup scedualer

ik