Formating Question

Is there a way to format my hard drive but select what folders I want to keep?

 

There's not to much to add

Installing xp will automatically format your drive. You can do a reinstall without reformating. However, always do a back-up first.

 

Eh...thats annoying. I will make a partition and move everything I need to keep there then.

 

*quite.
you should have a removable drive for BU anyway, buy one of those, move your files and then format the internal drive, move the files back

 

Only way is to copy from Windows Commander folders to another partition or usb drive and format

/CarcaBot

 

I have a 1 gb memory stick

 

even better! they make uber huge ones now anyway! what are they up to 32GB? 64?

I think my next hard drive will be solid state for sure.

 

get a bigger flash drive.

 

Amm I guess I have a solution although many of you will not like it. Install vista over XP. Vista always keeps older OS files intact and install itself place apart from that. Isnt this good?? But it is good for only those who like vista, not for others.

 

The flash drives are prone to corrupt. I have a couple go bad.

The best back-up is usb dual drive with a raid.

 

that's true, they wear out over time, tough trade off. I'd never use them for anything long term anyway

 

Throw all the things you want to keep on D:\ and format your C:\

 

of course, burn it! I guess it all depends what you want to move though, if you have some killer files, movies or something, might not be able to burn to DVD

 

I didn't mean to burn it, but to use your HDD in 2 parts .. D: and C: as HDD and E: as a DVD driver for example So .. throw all the things on your D: part and format your C: part

 

oops sorry
that's what I said earlier though, partitioning

or virtual drive?