pcworld.about.com — Windows users who need to reinstall windows while keeping their data in tact are in luck. Over at PC World’s Computing Center they’ve got a detailed tutorial that explains how you can reinstall your Windows OS without having to reformat your hard drive.-via Lifehacker
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doofusAug 1, 2005
What's next? How to format a floppy disk? Pfffftttt
lsutigerAug 1, 2005
Why would anyone need to re-install an OS?"Mac Fanatic"
dimwellAug 1, 2005
"Bottom line: this article got more diggs than you raging assh**es would ever get...so stopp dissin digg"That doesn't make it a story that should be posted to a tech news site.
slithyAug 1, 2005
@lsutiger, why the hell would anyone want to pay a high-ass dollar amount for propritary hardware (i.e. anything apple)?
v_mobAug 1, 2005
"That doesn't make it a story that should be posted to a tech news site"Digg isnt only tech news. It's social news as well. Go back to viewing slashdot.
lsutigerAug 1, 2005
Slithy,Maybe I don't enjoy re-installing an OS monthly. My time is worth money. Apparently yours is not.
edgen22Aug 1, 2005
I have two drives, an 80Gb and a 200Gb. I install two instances of windows in 20Gb partitions on the 80GB and use the rest as miscellanous storage. My 200Gb holds all my neatly organized materials. I clean installed WinXP and used Norton Ghost to create a disk image, that way I can "clean install" winxp in about 4 minutes by restoring the image to one the partitions.
skippy2057Aug 2, 2005
Or you could use a Linux live CD for the OS and an external drive for data (or a biggish thumb drive, if you are "travelin' light").At work, we change the default "My Documents" location to D:, which makes it a *bit* less painfull if/when we need to reimage a PC/notebook - and we do that quite a bit *sigh*. My brother used to swear by Acronis, he used to set that up on friends' PCs for quick recovery.