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Name: clay Date: October 20, 2001 at 12:21:57 Pacific
Comment:
I'm experiancing substantial slowdown of my system from years of installing and uninstalling and would like to start from scratch when I install xp. However, I damaged the restore disk for my system, so I don't have disks for some of the programs that came with my system. I was told that if I save the MyPrograms directory in a partition, then format the rest of the drive, I could still run the programs. Will this work? Don't you have to do an install to get windows to recignize the program? I sure wish I had done a full backup when I first got this thing!
Name: bora Date: October 20, 2001 at 13:11:57 Pacific
Reply:
if you want to save any data just use fdisk and split your hard disk and move the data which you would like to not delete..it would be D: and now you can format c: ..so then install any os to c: hard drive..
good lucks
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Response Number 2
Name: fred Date: October 20, 2001 at 17:33:21 Pacific
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if you do as bora suggests, u will lose all your files as u can't repartition & save existing files with fdisk you would have to use a prog like partition magic to save your files while partitioning & yes, you will have to re-install all your programs but will still have your personal files saved on d: after partitioning a clean install is preferable to an update
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Response Number 3
Name: bora Date: October 21, 2001 at 12:38:02 Pacific
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hehe sorry..i didnt mention about you mustn use fdisk as you have files on your disk..ok then just use fips(more powerfull and easier than fdisk)lol
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