----- Original Message ----- From: "David J Brooks" Subject: Re: PC problem??????/
> All important photos, downloaded setup for PS, Lumipix etc and > documents are on CD/DVD and or the external Maxtors. > > In your opinion Bill, should i look at getting the HD replaced(its > only a 80 gig at the moment). I know when this one was replaced 18 > months or so, he mapped all of my files and programs from the old one, > and istalled the new HD the put the programes and files on the new > one.. > > Sounds like this is done all the time and not a big deal, ??eh. I hate replacing main drives, it takes me weeks to get the machine back to the way I like it. If you can get things mapped, then it's not such a big deal, I guess. I've always done clean installs though, which is a royal pain. I just discovered the settings migration tool that Win XP comes packaged with, which made my new machine a lot easier to deal with. If you don't have irreplacable data on the thing, I'd just use it until it craps out. A couple of things that I've done on my machines is to seperate the "My Documents" and email storage directories from the C drive, and I also export my address book and bookmarks files to a backup drive from time to time. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
