reformatting question.

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okay guys, thanks. I have a dvd burner and some spare blank dvd roms, so i'm cutting a lot of my stuff down and am just going to burn it onto that.

But yeah. I've finished putting the stuff on dvd-roms, so i'm set for this time. But for SURE i will look into a 2nd HD, because I find that sort of thing will be very useful in the future.


thank you for all your advice.

No, get a dvd burner, 4.7 gigs a dvd.

No, get a 2nd hard drive, then you don't have to go through the ass-ache of burning and roloading every time.

Yup.. Get a 2nd disk.. or partition your current to smaller drives. I have 5 drives from 2 harddisk. Each time i format, its just my C drive. The rest always stays, no data loss

There should be a 'I want my computer the way i first bought it' button.

Yeah, I would get a second disk drive too, but a dvd bruner is always nice to have.

[QUOTE=cybling]There should be a 'I want my computer the way i first bought it' button.[/QUOTE]
In a way there is. I made a Ghost CD(Ghost from Symantec). First time i setup XP on my PC, i created an image of the clean setup, basic XP, with photoshop and some other applications. For for each "format", I just pop in the CD(it has to be bootable), and run the restore. Takes less than 10 mins.

Ahh..

Wish i knew of that when i bought my comp. Zed, if i just put all my program files onto my external HD along with all my personal work, reformat my main drive and put everything back, would that do me any good?

In a way there is. I made a Ghost CD(Ghost from Symantec). First time i setup XP on my PC, i created an image of the clean setup, basic XP, with photoshop and some other applications. For for each "format", I just pop in the CD(it has to be bootable), and run the restore. Takes less than 10 mins.

Yeah, or you can do it the unreliable way, with Windows system restore.
Or if you want it completely back to normal with none of you files you can always repartition the hard drive.

[QUOTE=cybling]Ahh..

Wish i knew of that when i bought my comp. Zed, if i just put all my program files onto my external HD along with all my personal work, reformat my main drive and put everything back, would that do me any good?[/QUOTE]
Nope it wont. Cause of the way windows setups stuff. You can save the files and restore them, but what you can't is the Registry. So files are there, but they won't work without the registry entries.

Nope it wont. Cause of the way windows setups stuff. You can save the files and restore them, but what you can't is the Registry. So files are there, but they won't work without the registry entries.

Actually, most of them will work even without registry entrys. I did it on my F: drive.