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re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help
Sunday, July 11, 2004 at 6:44 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jeff
(5 messages posted)
Donna,
Thanks for your reply! I plan to implement many of the tips I have found such as
the partitioning that you spoke of in your post. My problem for the time being is
that my 100 gig drive has become something of a mess and therefore I do not wish
to simply copy it. I have duplicate folders and Im sure far too much clutter. I
want to get this cleaned up so I can start fresh and do it better the next time around.
I have had people tell my to try restore but unfortunately that began having problems
several months ago and was not creating restore points and the ones I do have say
they cannot be used. What I am hoping to find is a methodology to picking the the
info I need from the drive and then wiping the rest. I am not worried about programs
because I have disks for everything I need to reinstall. Its the things like word
documents, pictures not part of my digital camera folder, favorites, etc. Is there
a sensable way to pull this type if info and get it organized on a cd so that when
I do get the drive set up properly I can put this info back where it belongs.
As I am trying to recall the details of your post(dont want to go back for fear of
loosing what I have already typed) and maybe I have misunderstood. If so please feel
free to correct me. One thought I have is that you are suggesting to leave the drive
as is and partition it to run ME on a 10gig partition and by doing so would allow
me to sort all the clutter on the other sections of my drive to be sorted without
having to make all the cd copies. Would this method be acceptable? I also would
like to know if anyone has a recommendation for a program that would compare like
files and allow me to delete duplicates safely and possibly locate and clean files
that are no longer associated with current programs. I am trying not to make any
further changes to the drive until I have a good idea of the solution to my problem
so I dont make a small problem a big one!! (I hope to do something soon because
my 20 gig c drive is operating on about 1 gig of free space and I know thats not
a good practice and asking for trouble.)
Thanks for your help. Jeff
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