<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by winkydink:
If you religious about keeping all of your personal data under Documents & Settings, simply copying to a disk connected elsewhere would probably suffice, like one installed in a dock or a separate firewire disk.
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I think the key is a separate hard disk with its own controller -- firewire or USB assures complete separateness. As opposed to copying to another hard drive that has the same controller card as the first drive. That can be trouble.