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1crny
Senior Heliman
Location: Springfield IL

Ok..... i need to reformat my computer but i have a dilemma......

I have about 25gigs of programs and music stored on my D: drive....my hard drive is partitioned to C: and D: drives. I dont want to loose 25 gigs worth of downloads and sure dont want to burn 25gigs worth of cd's....... dont own another hard drive to transfer them to either nor do i have a tape drive or big zip drive....... any suggestions on getting this data somewhere while i reformat? Tried networking my laptop to my desktop to temp. move it to the laptop but didnt suceed in networking them thanks to an error on my laptop somewhere that i cant seem to figure out. Any ideas?

01-15-2003 Over year old.

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ToddG
Senior Heliman
Location: Las Vegas, NV

How much extra space do you have on the drive? Might try using a program such as Partion Magic to create another drive letter or resize your existing partitions. This would allow you to format the system partion and leave your downloads unaffected.

Todd

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IsaaX
Senior Heliman
Location: Cerritos, CA

Well, I would go out and purchase another Hard Drive. Can't really fit much in 25gigs these days. The drives are rather cheap these days especially with mail in rebates and stuff. Once you get that new hard drive, use it as your main drive with the operating system and leave your old drive alone and keep all your downloaded pr0n and MP3's in it. Delete whatever folders are not used/needed.

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1crny
Senior Heliman
Location: Springfield IL

Well the computer came partitioned in the 2 drives ( C &D ) my worry is that when i run the restore disk to reformat that it will wipe out all the partitions and redo it back to a C and D drive. I have partition magic 8 to possibly do that but like i said it worries me about it redoing all the partitions.... its a sony VAIO and thats how they come from the factory. Anyone have experience with this issue and adding partitions?

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Greg McFadden
Key Veteran
Location: Spokane Valley, WA

go out, spend the same amount you spent on a new pair of blades, (good ones not woodies) and buy a hard drive. www.googlegear.com

80 bucks will get you a good 40gig hard drive

One question, how old is your computer? what mainboard and bios revision. If it is too old it may not support the larger hard drives... (as in larger than 40 gigs for example... or you may need a bios upgrade

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1crny
Senior Heliman
Location: Springfield IL

the computer is less than a year old VAIO with 1.7ghz procesor and has a 80gig already........no doubt the computer will handle a new hard drive but thats not what i really want to do..... the space i have now is sufficient enough. I just need to redo it cause i have had a run in with a virus that isnt wanting to clean out.

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Greg McFadden
Key Veteran
Location: Spokane Valley, WA

ahh
Do you know anyone in your area that could loan you a hard drive for a day? I have done that before and it works...

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1crny
Senior Heliman
Location: Springfield IL

Thought of that one and dont have anyone in the area that i know...... just moved here about 2yrs ago and dont really know anyone yet. Tried to steal my sons HD until i remembered its only 4 gig total

so what i think is that if i run format C: and then boot from the disk i will be alright...... just worries me that the dam disk will want to reformat the drive itself and will redo it back to the way it was from the factory and i will end up loosing info on D

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IsaaX
Senior Heliman
Location: Cerritos, CA

Oh wewp, I didn't realize it was an 80gig drive

For some odd reason I missed it.

If you run the restore disk you will lose all your partitions BUT if you were to install your OS manually (not using the restore disk), you'll be able to do a clean install of the OS and have it format your primary partition (C: Drive). You won't lose data on your D: drive this way. The downfall is that you'd have to manually reinstall each program that came packaged with your Vaio but most of it you won't need anyway. Device Drivers would have to be downloaded and reinstalled as well unless it came packaged in a cdrom that came with your Vaio.

Too bad you don't live here in Los Angeles, I always help out a flyer in need of computer support for free.

01-15-2003 Over year old.

mongo
Veteran
Location: Midland, Republic of TEXAS

use the mongo special rental plan at best buy

buy the drive, any drive, do the transfeer, do the reformat and re install, transfeer the data back.

return the drive
plead incompetance at installing it, and just not wanting the hassel any more, if they give ya an problems

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mongo
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Location: Midland, Republic of TEXAS

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1crny
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Location: Springfield IL

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