Yes, just buy a new hard drive and install to that. Keep the whole old drive as a backup.
Monumental waste of time "keeping track of the programs you installed". You should have the programs you USE on your C partition and that should be imaged daily. On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Richard P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like I'll have to reinstall my Windows XP operating system in > the near future. Is there a simple program that can document and print > out a copy of all the existing programs I currently have on the > computer? I want to keep track of the ones I have added without having > to write down each one. > > Second, any suggestions for the best way to backup files in preparation > for the reinstall? I tried backing up to a 160GB Seagate external drive > but it stopped at 4GB, which apparently is the limit for FAT32. One > thought is to buy a second internal harddrive and just copy everything > over to it and then after reinstall, use the second hard drive as > permanent data storage, with the primary drive holding the operating > system. Any suggestions will be appreciated. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
