XP desktop backed up

Well, I hope this is how things work in stuff like this. I finally got that external hard drive, a small 120G Seagate model on clearance. After about 2 hours, I managed to make a backup of everything not in use by the system and therefore allowed to be copied. I even exported a copy of the current registry. I may go back for the other cheap Seagate drive for use with the Win98SE system if I can find drivers for it.

I hope that all I need to do with the backing up the desktop is to copy everything off, and when time comes for re-installing the system on a new hard drive, just copy everything back on and import the registry. (shrug) We'll see.