Is It Safe To Move A Hdd?

[Broken]

It's always a good idea to do a full format.
Just back the games up on cd's dvd's or another drive if you have it.

[raiserblade2003]

Originally posted by Broken@30 November 2003 - 05:42
It's always a good idea to do a full format.
Just back the games up on cd's dvd's or another drive if you have it.

but i dont have a dvd burner....and 6 to 7 gigs of games....kotor alone is going ot be 4 disc, then come nfsu, then midnight, then morrowwind, then cod, and then, gta vc, so it add up to quite a lot of cds

kotor 4
nfsu 2
midnight club 2- 2
morrowind 2
gta vc 2
cod is 2 i think, havent unrar it yet

so possibly 12 cds....which equal to 12 movies.....i need a dvd burner....

[Broken]

Anything you wanna keep, back it up. Not just because you're gonna reformat. One day you will be thankfull you did.

[raiserblade2003]

so theres no way for me to save some stuff during installation of winxp?

[Broken]

If the data is in the same partition has the OS you plan on replacing there is no way that I know of to save it... that is unless it can be backup on disk or another drive and replaced afterwards.

Why are you wanting to do a fresh install? Are you having problems? Is it really needed?

[raiserblade2003]

cuz my comps is getting slow lately and i tried defrag like 15x this week. i check the task manager and nothing is hogging resources. and im starting to urn out of space. i try deleting stuff but for some reason, somethign else is taking up space becuz when i delete almost everythign except the games and movies, theres is still almost 10gig of "i have no clue what is using that"

[Broken]

Are you using a program like window washer to get rid of junk files?
A program like diskeeper can rearrange the information on you hard drive to increase speed.

[Broken]

might also wanna get a program like norton systemworks.

[clocker]

Originally posted by raiserblade2003@29 November 2003 - 22:58
so theres no way for me to save some stuff during installation of winxp?

Sure there is.
Before you do the install, create a new partition. Copy anything you want to save into this new partition.
When you install Windows it will just format C:, leaving the rest of your drive alone.

[raiserblade2003]

ty clocker *give big wet kiss*