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Thread ID: 101672	2009-07-22 20:36:00	Preparing for reinstalling OS (again!)	R.M. (561)	Press F1

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794251	2009-07-23 15:19:00	The original poster has images made by Acronis and could clone the image onto a new hard drive as you say. Multiple images of C:\ Clone whatever image Say that it is WinXP pro which is probably correct. I also do not know what size the new hard drive will be either for that matter. It may be that R.M. may get a 750 Gig Hard drive as a replacement. Let us assume that R.M. gets an exact replacement for the drive being sent back. Was the whole drive imaged or just one partition? According to R.M. there is a full image of the C: drive but no image of another partition or logical drive which I think exists. A 500 Gig drive which is 100 Gig C:\ or the boot drive. Another drive which is around 400 Gig which is not imaged so we are told. So using your method we do not need to be worried about the 400 Gig left over do we? You go rescue the data when it turns to custard. The Wikipedia article is flat out wrong in the first part where all you have to do with a raw or unpartitioned hard drive is to set the BIOS to boot from a bootable media such as a CD or DVD or Floppy or a USB drive and follow the steps which will get you a partition to install the operating system on. With XP Pro you can install the O/S and have unallocated space where you can create more partitions and or logical drives within partitions. Thanks also for bringing up the "pedantic" bit. I may be considered that way but I do try to read posts very carefully. Perhaps I should have a more careful look at your posts.	Sweep (90)
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