Originally Posted by aly
Hello all, i would like to reformat my laptop due to numerous downloads and subsequent slowdowns;
whats the best way to save dcs and reinitialize?
i have all of the original cds that came with laptop.
The real troubel comes wiht finding all the locatiosn thatyour data is squirrleled away.....
For safety take a Drive Image of the hard drive (assumign you have everythign on one partition - C you will need to create a seperate partition of have a connected drive to burn this image to)
Then you can always get back to your data
Then - if youw ant ot make this process easy for future - create a second partition - D for data, restore your CD install to C and then restore your backed up data per the other suggestions and point all your data sources to D - that makes back up easy for future.
Then take regular sdrive images of yoru system so you can restore back to this point if you ever run into trouble. All the while backin up yoru D data drive to keep yrou data safe