more CPU help please

[riv]

Originally Posted by Bareback_Rider

I thought he wanted W2K back on his system? Does he still have the disks? You'll also need the program disks for whatever you want to load.

i dont have any of teh OS disk, no cd's or floppys. there just so much shit i need to get rid of on my computer.

i like that ghosting idea, all i want is the OS, my music and video files.

could i copy all that to an external HD?
then wipe my old HD and put the OS back on the old one?

how easy is this to do? and of course cost is a serious issue

[Bareback_Rider]

Originally Posted by Riv

i dont have any of teh OS disk, no cd's or floppys. there just so much shit i need to get rid of on my computer.

i like that ghosting idea, all i want is the OS, my music and video files.

could i copy all that to an external HD?
then wipe my old HD and put the OS back on the old one?

how easy is this to do? and of course cost is a serious issue

Unfortunately, you can't "copy" programs from on pc to another, or erase it and put it right back on. You have to use some type of "ghost" software for that. I'd call a pc outlet/retailer and start inquiring about prices. The external hard drive is a great toy anyway. That'll come in handy for many other things, other than what we're talking about.

[Nasir]

From what I understand you can copy programs an files. There is an option in Norton Ghost 2003 in advanced called clone. You can clone one HD to another. It copies everything exactly the way you have it. Though Im not sure how this works. Im still experimenting with it myself. For you it should be simple, if your keeping all your hardware the same an just changing HD's.

I would recommend getting Norton Ghost 2003. Remove all the unwanted trash you don't want to clone, then clone your old HD to the new empty HD. It stays exactly the same, exept you would gain a bigger HD. There was something else I did read tho. Sumtin about not letting it reboot to windows after the clone. That the registery would go nullified being that there would be 2 HD's with XP runnin on the same computer. Oh woops your using XP right? Bah nvm heh. Here check this link out it kinda explains some stuff.
www.ghost.radified.com/ghost_4.htm

[MoeDaddy]

Ghost will let you image the whole drive but that will not really help you because what would be the point of reformatting the drive and then putting it back "exactly like it is now" ;). Although like Nasir said you could uninstall all you don't need then image the drive but you would be better off with a fresh install. Your best bet is to download a warez version of win2k and use your own cd key on install. If you don't know your CD key there are programs out there that will extract it for you from the current install.

Also if you use outlook or outlook express for email and IE for your browser there is a program called Express Assist that will back up all you email accounts, messages and address book as well as all your IE stuff like favorites and cookies. You can save all the music and other files you want to cd and then reformat and install w2k. Or get Partition Magic and make another partition on the same drive, if you have the space, and move the files you want to save there. Then reformat C and reinstall w2k and move saved file back and get rid of the partition or just keep it as is.

BTW why do you want to format the drive? Is there problems with the install?

[riv]

MoeDaddy...

tehre is nothing wrong wioth teh install its just i have soo much shit on there i want to reformat and put a clean version on a new bigegr HD. thanks for all the info.