ME to XP

Too much stuff in the PC to do a clean install. But I will do a real clean up of the machine before I start.

BruB, do a backup and clean install. Upgrades never work well, and I have tried it many times for people, and they all end up needing me to reformat the entire thing and start over... :P <BR> <BR>Sometimes removing all that &acute;stuff&acute; is a good idea and installing fresh. ;)

Just to keep me from falling asleep I&acute;ll just keep on ranting here.... <BR>The way I keep my system &quot;reinstallable&quot; is to keep all my installed proggies on one partition/HD and all my other stuff on other partitions/HDs, installations for diff progs like Windows, backups of misc documents. This have saved my butt quite a few times!! <BR>But you might have a problem if you only got one partition/HD... but there&acute;s a solution to a problem like this: <b>Partition Magic</b> (http://www.powerquest.com)!! <BR>It let&acute;s you create/remove/modify partitions &quot;on the fly&quot;, even <b>with Windows installed</b> and without loosing any data what so ever. (I&acute;ve tried it, works like a charm) <BR> <BR>Another way of doing it could be to borrow an HD from one of you mates (if you got any ;) ) and slam it in your box and use this as a backup disk while you format/fdisk your own HD!! <BR> <BR>or you could use a hell of alot of diskettes ;) ;) LOL

Or you could use the magical cd burner of light (*angels sing*)... :P

I have to agree on the clean install. I upgraded from W2k to XP. It worked, but I ended up doing the reformat dance anyway. (I had a bug that I couldn&acute;t get rid of.) <BR>After the new install, I found that by upgrading, and saving my settings, a lot of XP had been turned off. So bite the bullet and reformat. :D

Listen to snow. Best to keep the OS separate from the rest. <BR> <BR>/me has eight partitions

you guys are giving me the creeps, Now I don&acute;t know if I want to do that!

8 partitions?! dang... I &quot;only&quot; got 4... 3 drives, one split into 2 partitions (45 gig in all) but will have to add another drive since I&acute;m running out of space soon :/

I have 4 too, 3 on the master, 1 on the slave... But you should only really need 2 (unless you are like me and need to actually separate things with different drives cause I&acute;m so disorganized...) :)

I don&acute;t have any particians on my computer........ but I do have them in my closet, several particians two for /hobnobber: and the rest for /me but I don&acute;t think that would help you /BruB: I agree with the rest here, clean install and if you don&acute;t back up your stuff your not wanting to loose here for the up-grade....... think of it this way, if you got hacked or a major virus, your going to loose it all anyway .

I just bought and installed another HD, and did a Dual boot install. <BR>{:p

/me slaps {:p , grabs he&acute;s new HD and runs like <b>hell</b> :brb