Yes I am running XP on a fairly new Sony laptop. A correction to my earlier problem -- the music files are not located on my external drive, they are located on my D-drive which is a partition of my C-drive. (E,F, & G drives are comprised of my CD/DVD drive, jump drive, and external HD, respectively.) So, I guess my issue is getting my limewire program to see the music files on the D- drive partition. If I just copy and paste the files back onto C -- won't I be defeating my goal of freeing some space on the C-drive? I am hoping there is a set of steps that will cause limewire to see this set of files over on the D-drive. Ideas welcome!