I meant transfer them by burning and reinstall on new drive, to protect them (such as Quicken and other personal files). Who cares if they see my grandchilden's photos or correspondence. So, my question really was, can't I just drag those info files onto the CD and then put them back on after installation? Moving the whole file of info. Never done this before.... Pat On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 06:41 PM, Ron Reames wrote: > I've never replaced the hard drive so I don't know about that, but RAM > is cheap and it's very easy to do yourself. > Sure, burn your files and drag them over to your new drive. >