Rixey,
> She has 2 drives C and D in her hard drive. She has data in her D drive
> and the windows xp home
> edition in her C drive. She wants to install the legal home edition in
> her C drive. Before she
> does that she wants to backup her C drive into her D drive. Now I'm
> afraid that when she goes to
> install the legal edition and delete what is in the C drive that it will
> attach itself to her D
> drive because I've had it happen to me. How can we do it so that loading
> the new os into the C
> drive does not damage what is in the D drive?
First off an install of XP on the C drive will NOT affect the D: drive, the
best install is to choose to delete the partition. Does she want to back the
C drive to the D just to back up data? If so she cand drag and drop the data
files to the D drive. Even if she copies the OS to the D drive it will not
be bootable even if she were to copy it back to C. So I would not bopy the
OS or any programs. She must reinstall the programs. This will make the copy
task easier if she only copies data files and fonfigurations. She could use
the files and settings transfer wizard for that.
I must reiterate that unless her new copy of XP is a full [expensive] copy
she will need a disk from a qualified OS like 98 to complete the install.
Without that it will not be completete.
Jim
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