I have used Partition Magic 8.0 with some success, it reduces the time for disk clean up and defrag etc. I use Norton Save and Restore to do regular back-ups to another part of the same physical disk but in a different partition, probably safer if I get a separte remote hard drive and back up to that?Only had to use 'Save and Resore' once but it worked perfectly when the inbuilt MS System Restore didn't woek at all.