Becky Buehrer wrote: >How do I get the contents of my hard drive from the old to the new? There are several ways to do this and it depends on how you want to tackle the monstor. You could attatch the old drive as a slave and drag what you need to the new hard drive, perform a backup using the Microsoft Utility, put it on disk and do a restore in the new machine, or buy a utility that will do this for you such as Drive Copy. http://www.barrett.net/transferdatatoxp.html This site is kind of a primer for transfering information. You may find it helpful. After you transfer all of the information you need, format the drive and re-install the original software and you Daughter is off and running with her own computer. >how much difference is there in a pentium and a celeron processor? Quite a bit actually according to the good folks at "How stuff works". http://www.howstuffworks.com/question268.htm Performance and speed are the key elements. Sincerely, Frank Suszka netTek Computers [log in to unmask] The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with the OpenOffice CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml