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Originally posted by musicalmidget
I don't quite know what's taking up 7GB though, it's mostly school work and things.

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Make sure u dnt drop ur HDD, they break really easily. U cud use a DVD writer

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Originally posted by saralk

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Originally posted by musicalmidget
I don't quite know what's taking up 7GB though, it's mostly school work and things.

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Make sure u dnt drop ur HDD, they break really easily. U cud use a DVD writer

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I don't even plan on removing to drive, just disconnecting the power and IDE cables.  I could use a DVD burner...except it's in the other computer and like I said, I don't fancy transfering all that data over the LAN.

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Originally posted by musicalmidget
My alternative would be to move all the files I need to keep over the LAN to the other computer, but there are approximately 3-4 GB worth of data and I don't fancy waiting three and a half hours for the files to be moved if possible.

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If you can do this i would put the really Key essential files you want to save and really desperatlyu cant afford to loose like accounts detailss of an coursework i dont know but i would do that. The really crucial i would put there just incase

I've heard that you really don't need to re-format your computer. Since all the problems are with the system files you really only need to re-install windows and overwrite the old windows files. But I don't know.

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Originally posted by NoName
I've heard that you really don't need to re-format your computer. Since all the problems are with the system files you really only need to re-install windows and overwrite the old windows files. But I don't know.

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i wouldn't do that... A format and a clean installation is always better than any upgrade.

btw, about the fat32 partiotion: if you aren't gonna use it in windows 9x/Me, i'd suggest you to convert that partition to ntfs (after you've restored the files)

instead of install windows all the time, why don't make an image of a clean install with some basic's driver, office, painshop bla bla bla, the next time you f*ck up your pc you'll be done within minutes   then when you're done you allso don't have to download all window's upgrades, saves time

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Originally posted by Choli

btw, about the fat32 partiotion: if you aren't gonna use it in windows 9x/Me, i'd suggest you to convert that partition to ntfs (after you've restored the files)

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yep, i would

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Originally posted by red3vil

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Originally posted by Choli

btw, about the fat32 partiotion: if you aren't gonna use it in windows 9x/Me, i'd suggest you to convert that partition to ntfs (after you've restored the files)

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yep, i would

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I'd like to actually, but my Windows XP version is the upgrade, so I have to install Windows 98 before I can upgrade.

I've reinstalled everything now, and for once I thought it may have gone well for a change, untill...

"According to our records, the maximum number of times Windows XP can be activated using this product key has been exceeded.  Please call customer support for a new key."

How fantastic.

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Originally posted by musicalmidget
I'd like to actually, but my Windows XP version is the upgrade, so I have to install Windows 98 before I can upgrade.

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no need to do that. you can do a clean install and it'll ask you for a windows 98/nt/2000 cd. you put it, the installation recognices it and continues. I also do that.

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Originally posted by musicalmidget
"According to our records, the maximum number of times Windows XP can be activated using this product key has been exceeded.  Please call customer support for a new key."

How fantastic

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/somg

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Originally posted by Choli

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Originally posted by musicalmidget
I'd like to actually, but my Windows XP version is the upgrade, so I have to install Windows 98 before I can upgrade.

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no need to do that. you can do a clean install and it'll ask you for a windows 98/nt/2000 cd. you put it, the installation recognices it and continues. I also do that.

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I didn't know that.

Blah!

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Originally posted by Choli

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Originally posted by musicalmidget
"According to our records, the maximum number of times Windows XP can be activated using this product key has been exceeded.  Please call customer support for a new key."

How fantastic

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/somg

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Yeah.

It shouldn't take too long to transfer 7GB of data over a network with Fast Ethernet (100MBPS)... that's what I did here when I had to format my HDD.

But if you have another HDD on the same PC with enough free space, that's undoubtedly the better solution...

7GB is nothing nowadays, really... You can get to that size even without audio/video, which are the main space hogs I think.