The best i can think of is to make mirror image of the disk . that will make sure that you have the same application of the old machine. Other than that I am not sure you can do that on windows but linux thats possible though I haven't tried that. but it has worked sucessfully on Hpux machine -Rupesh. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/