Thanks for all the great responses. After reading your stories, I realize that I MUST purchase a hard drive imaging utility program to backup my hard drive. PC Magazine recently conducted a comparative review of:

Norton Ghost 2003: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1091163,00.asp

Drive Image 2002: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1091162,00.asp

Drive Imaging http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1094490,00.asp

Acronis TruImage 6.0 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1091164,00.asp


Acronis TruImage 6.0 garnered 5 stars as well as PC Magazine's Editor's Choice award. I'm curious if anyone here has had any experience with TruImage 6.0, as I'm thinking of going with it instead of Norton Ghost or Drive Image now, as I also have a NEC brand CDR-CDRW drive (model NR-7900A) which TruImage 6.0 supposedly works well with.

Claude: Thanks for directing me to the Outlook file location. The Outlook file has the file extension of .PST. On an interesting side note, I notice that some Yamaha Style files also appear to share that SAME .PST (microsoft office data file type) extension. Anyone know why?

Scott