Hello All, thanks for all your advice I have succeeded and am using my new system. First of all some explanation of how I work, I never keep data on my C: drive it is all kept on my other drives this makes it easier when I revamp my computer and am now using two SSD's in a raid 0 configuration. I do HD video editing so I need a high spec computer, here is how I did it. I didn't want to use easy transfer because it transfers a lot of baggage from old programmes so this is the procedure I would recommend. Create a folder on a spare drive name it "File transfer" within it create four more named "e-mails" "accounts" "contacts" and "favorites" in live mail export messages ,accounts and contacts to the relevant folders, navigate to favorites...