NOT NECESSARILY! A bunch of programs (AOL, Earthdesk, Adobe, and some Fax programs, just among those I personally use) store your data in Harddrive / Users / Shared Check there before you erase your disk! -- Robert MacLeay On 3/7/06 8:47 AM, Snow White <jj4 at sympatico.ca> wrote: > You can just save your user identity on the external. > > Harddrive / Users / YourIdentity > > Saving your identity will save all your data (of that user) and it can > be transfered to your fresh install.