Use floppies or get a USB portable drive. They are reasonably priced and come in a variety of sizes.
I would like on my WinME computer to clean install WinXP after reformating it first. All I really care to keep from my old system, are the email addresses and messages in the Outlook Express.
What is the easiest way to back up those addresses and messages? To make it even more difficult for you, let me tell you that there is not any CD-RW available on board.
Anyone cares?

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