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Old January 15th, 2007, 12:20 PM
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Can this be done?

Hi everyone,


I'm not tech savy, I hope somebody will help

I got XP pro. My system has been kinda slow lately. There is lot of junk in my harddisk. I want to format it. I have about 10 GB of stuff I wanna save. I cant loose them. I dont have CDs or any external storage devices.

Is there anyway I can format harddisks while saving the things I want? Does formatting means - do I have to re-install XP too? Cant I just format the hard disk?

Sorry for being so ignorant. . Please help out.
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Old January 15th, 2007, 12:30 PM
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formatting means erasing all data off a medium
no way to get around that

well if you just wanna reinstall then you can but, in my opinion, thats a messy way to do it since some programs dont work and need to be reinstalled as well
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Old January 15th, 2007, 03:06 PM
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You can upload the stuff you want to save to one of the free online storage services. I've used www.X-drive.com (it's sloooow but it works) and www.box.net.

Once you have the computer back up and running, go back to the online storage site and retrieve your data.
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Old January 15th, 2007, 03:27 PM
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You can get USB harddrives quite cheap.
£45 for 80GB

Unless this is a typo then this is a great deal
£65 250GB USB2
http://www.oyyy.co.uk/product.php?xProd=26909&dealtime
http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=318905
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Old January 15th, 2007, 11:17 PM
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DVD Burners are quite Cheap as well
costs $40-$60AUD for one
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Old January 15th, 2007, 11:25 PM
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Actually it can be done, you can shrink you're partition if you have free space (but you need to defragment first) then make a new partiton, move the 10 Gig over, then reformat the old partition and reinstall windows on it, then move the 10 gig back. Delete the 10 gig partition and expand you're remaining partiton to fill the hard drive.


Although in all honesty its probobly better to just buy some USB storage. Almost no chance of going wrong, quicker, easier and having that around is handy. Besides to do this you would need a special CD anyway, you could burn you're own but you said you don't have any CDs.


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Originally Posted by n1mrod9900
Does formatting means - do I have to re-install XP too? Cant I just format the hard disk?
Reformatting dose mean you have to re-install XP, "just reformatting the hard disk" won't work because XP is on the hard disk.

Last edited by Tortanick; January 15th, 2007 at 11:29 PM.
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