[thelist] System question...........

Tony Crockford tonyc at boldfish.co.uk
Mon Jun 4 11:03:22 CDT 2001


Here's a more alarming thought:

Just suppose your flaky windows installation finally gives up and you
can't get it started again and the ONLY thing you can do is re-install
windows?

Get the stuff that's "too much to lose" backed up now!

My advice is to fit a second hard drive for data (not apps, just data).
You could get a second drive and install a clean copy of windows onto
it, re-install your apps, keeping your existing disk for data afterwards

To go through a planned (full backups, careful note of all profiles and
settings, Passwords and DUN, email accounts etc) re-installation of
Windows, preferably onto a formatted disk.

If you do it right, you get the satisfaction of a more robust system and
you've backed everything up.



You're gonna have to do it some day, why not do it when you want to, not
when you have to?

hth

Tony





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