A fresh start!

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Aaaargh, my PC is soooo messed-up!! So I decided to format everything and reinstall Win XP :nervous:

I've got my fave playlist burned on a CD and everything else I wanted to keep zipped and jazzed so here goes... ;)

*wish me luck* :cool:
 
Good luck. You'll need it! I forsee three days of sitting there feeding your PC CDs. :cheers:
 
Originally posted by rufrgt_sn00pie2001
Aaaargh, my PC is soooo messed-up!! So I decided to format everything and reinstall Win XP :nervous:

I've got my fave playlist burned on a CD and everything else I wanted to keep zipped and jazzed so here goes... ;)

*wish me luck* :cool:
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Its aways nice to get a clean start..
 
Pfeew, It's done! And it went rather smoothly at that ;)

I just booted with the XP cd, formatted everything -new partitions -install etc. and done! Whoa, I guess I got lucky this time.
 
I tried to install XP too. After it was completed, all my stuff just stopped working.
Printer, scanner, mouse, webcam, sound. It all didn't work :mad:
Even with the XP patches it didn't work:cry:
After i deleted XP from my comp, it all worked again :confused:
 
Originally posted by rufrgt_sn00pie2001
Pfeew, It's done! And it went rather smoothly at that ;)

I just booted with the XP cd, formatted everything -new partitions -install etc. and done! Whoa, I guess I got lucky this time.
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Congrats on that, it feels good to don't it? ;)
 
Originally posted by made in holland
I tried to install XP too. After it was completed, all my stuff just stopped working.
Printer, scanner, mouse, webcam, sound. It all didn't work :mad:
Even with the XP patches it didn't work:cry:
After i deleted XP from my comp, it all worked again :confused:
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Big Bummer... :(
 
Originally posted by Ghostrider
Congrats on that, it feels good to don't it? ;)
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Yep! Everything is nice and clean, well... for now :p And I've got my full 40 gigs back! :eek:
 
Haha, loads of crap is something I paid extra attention to when setting up my new PC. I kept all of my old files on CD so everything would have a completely fresh start. And, since I saved a lot of things that I now realise are totally useless, I plan to keep my new computer as clean as possible. :)
 
Originally posted by Jordan
Haha, loads of crap is something I paid extra attention to when setting up my new PC. I kept all of my old files on CD so everything would have a completely fresh start. And, since I saved a lot of things that I now realise are totally useless, I plan to keep my new computer as clean as possible. :)
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I always plan to do that too... :p
 
Originally posted by Jordan
Haha, loads of crap is something I paid extra attention to when setting up my new PC. I kept all of my old files on CD so everything would have a completely fresh start. And, since I saved a lot of things that I now realise are totally useless, I plan to keep my new computer as clean as possible. :)
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I try to do the same thing but it never works. You try this and that and before you know it, its cloged pipes again. :lol:
 
LOL, thanks for the encouraging words, guys! :rolleyes: :lol:
 
I've started doing a simple partition on all my computers. I take a minimum of 6 gigs as my first partition and put the system and programs on that (usually the C:\ partition in Windows), and then everything that's left gets used for my data. I put the "My Documents" folder, and the "Desktop" folder on that partition too. I never delete anything, but I do my best to keep it very organized.

So when I need to reinstall Windows, or do some kind of upgrade, all I have to do is make sure I've got all my software CDs so I can reinstall all my programs. They do require some tweaking when I've got them installed, but I don't have to worry about my data anymore.

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by Jordan
Haha, loads of crap is something I paid extra attention to when setting up my new PC. I kept all of my old files on CD so everything would have a completely fresh start. And, since I saved a lot of things that I now realise are totally useless, I plan to keep my new computer as clean as possible. :)
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that's the way i've been trying to do things...

all that porno builds up after a while... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic
I've started doing a simple partition on all my computers. I take a minimum of 6 gigs as my first partition and put the system and programs on that (usually the C:\ partition in Windows), and then everything that's left gets used for my data. I put the "My Documents" folder, and the "Desktop" folder on that partition too. I never delete anything, but I do my best to keep it very organized.

So when I need to reinstall Windows, or do some kind of upgrade, all I have to do is make sure I've got all my software CDs so I can reinstall all my programs. They do require some tweaking when I've got them installed, but I don't have to worry about my data anymore.

~LoudMusic
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Bingo!

Thats what i do, my computer has 4 partions on it:

C:\ - Just winxp, nothing else, about 5 gigs
D:\ - My junk, game stuff, emulators, mods for games etc. about 10 gigs
E:\ - Music, nothing but music, about 10 gigs
F:\ - programs, games wp stuff, you name it and its a program, it goes here, 15 gigs

When i need to reinstall have i do is to reformat drives c and f, that way the i dont have to fiddle with the programs.

OT whoo f'n hoo the cable finally came back on after 4 hours!
 
I've made a single partition on the set-up and I figured I'd make another partition later, in win XP, but no I have one partition (c:\>) covering 10gigs. So how can I make another partition and recover the other 30 gigs?
 
Originally posted by space


Bingo!

Thats what i do, my computer has 4 partions on it:

C:\ - Just winxp, nothing else, about 5 gigs
D:\ - My junk, game stuff, emulators, mods for games etc. about 10 gigs
E:\ - Music, nothing but music, about 10 gigs
F:\ - programs, games wp stuff, you name it and its a program, it goes here, 15 gigs

When i need to reinstall have i do is to reformat drives c and f, that way the i dont have to fiddle with the programs.

OT whoo f'n hoo the cable finally came back on after 4 hours!
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That's pretty slick. Would this work on my 233mhz with 3.2g HDD? :smilewink
 
Originally posted by Macka


That's pretty slick. Would this work on my 233mhz with 3.2g HDD? :smilewink
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Sure it would work, although you'd have to live with 600mb partitions :lol:
 
Space and LoudMusic, what partition software are you guys using? Partition Magic?

Dude, I need a Dell
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Yes, you do! :D I just can't say enough great things about the company...I've owned 3 of their systems and all have been great experiences. Their shipping is even outstanding - when I ordered my new system about 3 weeks ago, it arrived at my door 2 days before Dell even predicted they would ship it! :eek: :thumbsup:
 

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