Damn, My first USB 2.0 back hd was not doing very well. It would lock up My Computer when ever opened. I thought I lost a bunch of stuff. Chkdsk fixed it. I had a bunch of bad files but nothing that I really missed. I'm copying everything off of it and onto my new 300gig backup drive and then burning everything onto DVDs. Maybe a dl, I'm not sure. Karen's laptop has a dl drive but I don't believe the dl dvd drive will be very popular. I'll wait til blu-ray or HD-dvd standarizes before putting data on specialized media. DVDs will do fine for now.