Ok all here is the scenario. I just left a client a couple hrs ago and both his HDD's are dead. In the morning he is going to pick up new hdd's in which I will install win2k. He had win2k with exch 5.5. I have had full backups running every day. My question is if I get him to buy the exch 2k upgrade, is it easy or even possible to restore the exchange store of exch5.5 into exch2k? As a side note..although he had AD installed, he only had a couple of users. I was just going to manually configure a AD structure after I install the OS. Any suggestions. You guys are awesome. Mark M. Friedman A+, MCP, MCSA Sands Technology Corp. <mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (954) 818-4203