Always keep all the stuff you want to keep, i.e. documents, music and videos etc on a separate drive / partition. Then you can blow away the OS whenever. I like to have a disc with an unattended installation setup on it - this lets me reinstall to my standard setup frequently with no effort.
On 26 Sep, 20:22, Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are right, that seems a bit of overkill. Many times it is better just > to reinstall from scratch and not bother "duplicating" the old machine, > escpecially when upgrading to Vista. It would be better to take a new look > at things when you upgrade and use that to streamline your application > usage. > > ...Glenn > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:22 PM, abhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fellow ZDNet blogger Jason Perlow helped a friend and colleague buy a > > new PC and migrate her data and settings from the old machine (Windows > > XP) to the new one (Windows Vista). He documents the process in The > > New Adventures of Christine's Old PC. > > > I tip my hat to Jason for his dedication to a friend, but as someone > > who has been doing this for years, I shook my head at the way he > > turned what should be a straightforward procedure into a weekend-long > > geekfest, complete with the transformation of the old, slow, obsolete, > > spyware-ridden computer into a virtual machine on the new one. In my > > opinion, that's overkill for everyone involved. > > >http://www.microsoftblog.info/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DotNetDevelopment, VB.NET, C# .NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XML Web Services,.NET Remoting" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://cm.megasolutions.net/forums/default.aspx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
