other peole still need to use the computer, and removing a hard drive is a possibility but my removeable hard drive is one of them usb things and i've not got the space to put all the stuff onto it and not enough time to make back ups of all 80 gb either

i can ditch a lot of the stuff but my brother is one of these computer geeks so i'm loathe to ask him in case he leaves a big back door open so he can look at stuff, i'm sure i haven't turned off the remote access option from something or the other because a little red box keeps popping up with his name onit in thebottom corner, but being the technophobe that i am, i'd rather find a way to do this from an outside source

oh well, if worse comes to worse i'll put everything on a few discs and delete the rest

cheers