Ikabob wrote: > I guess wiping out my existing computer ... just makes me nervous. It makes anyone nervous. What I've advised friends in your situation is to buy a new, bigger/faster hard drive and have your tech put it into your desktop PC right next to your existing drive. He should know how to install your new operating system on this new drive, leave your old drive totally intact and have your PC boot from the new "C:" drive. Everything will be spanking new, clean and fast. As you work with your "new" PC you'll discover what software you need to reinstall; you'll also find that you never use most of the stuff installed on your "old" PC. When you need access to your old files, they are still on your secondary "D:" drive. You can leave them there or take your time moving them over to the appropriate place on the new drive. After some time and once you're sure you've moved everything that you need, you can reformat the D: drive and have all that extra storage space.*
Here's another option: have your tech install Windows 7 in a "dual-boot" configuration with XP. The details are below but the short of it is that you choose which one to start whenever you boot up your PC. This is very handy when you have applications installed on XP that you still use and for which you no longer have the installer. Need to use Quicken and don't want to buy and install a new copy? Just reboot into XP: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html *It's a little different if you have a laptop as there is no room for a second drive. You'd buy an external USB case for your old hard drive something like this: http://www.amazon.com/SANOXY%C2%AE-SATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B001AAVA08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apesbrain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=738 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101240 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
