| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 43300 | 2004-03-10 04:09:00 | Win XP and partitioned drives | janie3 (5385) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 221500 | 2004-03-10 04:09:00 | I am having problems with XP. I would like to reload XP on my drive which has a partition. Can I format the partition with XP and reload the os while saving my data on the other partition? | janie3 (5385) | ||
| 221501 | 2004-03-10 04:50:00 | You should be able to. Good luck |
bk T (215) | ||
| 221502 | 2004-03-10 05:34:00 | Yes, you can format your Windows partition whilst your data is on another partition. Do remember though that some data you may wish to keep may be on the Windows partition in My Documents and within program folders. Be sure to save onto the data partition what you wish to keep. Do you have a Windows CD to reload Windows with? A tip: What problems are you having with Windows XP? Reformatting is a big job and may sometimes be avoided by fixing your problems. |
tommy (2826) | ||
| 221503 | 2004-03-10 05:47:00 | I'm having problems with reading files on cd's. I need this working properly as I'm doing a NZDipBus and require frequent use with tutorials and online access to my tertiary provider. As you can imagine, this is extremely frustrating. I can't seem to read data cd's at all. I use Norton Antivirus but while I was away another user said we got a worm through a download. They proceeded to remove it but I wonder if this has been done properly or successfuly. There have been other things happening for no apparent reason, freeze ups etc. Thanx for your replies, |
janie3 (5385) | ||
| 221504 | 2004-03-10 07:03:00 | Hmm.... you may have six of one and half a dozen of the other in your situation. If you have the time and patience you could run through the suggestions on the forum's FAQs on Computer Maintenance and Spyware (link to FAQs top right of this page) to try and solve your problems. Particularly the Spyware FAQ. You do have your anti-virus program up to date, don't you? Or you could just go ahead with a reformat and reinstall. Either way it will be time consuming. If you don't have a whole heap of programs to reinstall, reformatting might possibly be my choice but do remember all those patch updates. They take forever to reinstall. I would also advise you to ensure that all your data is backed up before proceeding, just in case. Note: The FAQs may take a while to load so do be patient. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 1 | |||||