In the days of 9x there were so many utilities that were released to perform a secure copy excluding all the data that would be transfered in the slack space of a file. Now in the days of NT/2K/XP/2K3 there is less and less call for a secure copy or the exclusion of any data that may be transferred unaware by a copy. Is this no longer a concern with the NTFS file system or is there something many people are over looking? Also, if you are transferring information from a source of media formatted in FAT to another media type formatted in FAT using a NTFS operating system is there an issue there? I'm really looking for some deep input here with information to back up the posts. Thank you.