What did I forget to back up?

Post by **Transient** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:55 am

About to format the hard drive and reinstall windows. What did I forget?

Music
Personal files
Bookmarks
E-mails
pr0n

Post by **Grandpa Stu** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:57 am

your soul? really sucks when you lose those.

game saves? word documents?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:59 am

TV Showz
Moviez
Applicationz
Downloadz
Gamez
ISOz
DVDz

Post by **Scourge** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:08 am

passwords/logins

Post by **SOAPboy** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:08 am

Driver installs? like, latest nic drivers and such?

Post by **Transient** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:10 am

Forgot TV shows, Man that would have been a disaster. All my pw/login stuff is in my head. If I can't remember them when I got to login somewhere, the website is obviously not worth the effort.

Post by **Scourge** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:17 am

There's a few though that I like to autologin, sometimes I forget passwords. The important ones though i got in my head. My webspace, bank, and shit like that are never autologin.

Post by **Canis** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:23 am

Get a drive just as large as your current one and mirror your files onto it. For my Mac I just copy my home directory to my second hard drive, and upon formatting I just copy it all back. Doing that restores all my settings and stuff exactly like it was. I'm figuring the same is possible with WinXP.

Post by **Scourge** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:31 am

No, I think the registry would fuck with a lot of it. I think I tried that once and it ended in complete disaster.

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:52 pm

ToxicBug wrote:TV Showz
Moviez
Applicationz
Downloadz
Gamez
ISOz
DVDz

youre only cool if you use a z at the end of a word

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:53 pm

scourge34 wrote:No, I think the registry would fuck with a lot of it. I think I tried that once and it ended in complete disaster.

word

Post by **eepberries** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:47 pm

This thread is major dejavu

Post by **Canis** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:52 pm

What is the point of the registry?

Post by **eepberries** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:53 pm

It's important. I'll tell you that much

Post by **Canis** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:53 pm

Ah...nm...I found it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:01 pm

MKJ wrote:
ToxicBug wrote:TV Showz
Moviez
Applicationz
Downloadz
Gamez
ISOz
DVDz
youre only cool if you use a z at the end of a word

Downloads are not warez... but downloadz are

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:35 pm

This is why I put my data (My Documents, Send To, Desktop, Favorites, etc.) on a seperate partition. I think the only thing I have to backup is outlook.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:37 pm

I’m not a PC geek, so can you tell me if it is feasible to just drag your C Drive into a Zip file, then save it on a cd or dvd and download it back to your new drive?

thanks

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:59 pm

pete wrote:I’m not a PC geek, so can you tell me if it is feasible to just drag your C Drive into a Zip file, then save it on a cd or dvd and download it back to your new drive? thanks

Ummm. that's kinda the stupid way. Just do what I did and you won't worry about what you have to backup.
I open two windows. The 2nd window is where I want the files to be, eg D:\User Data
From the first window I locate My Documents, then hold right click and drag it to the second window. Release the button and select move here. Just do the same for the others.
You can also use Tweak UI to do this.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:00 pm

riddla wrote:
FragaGeddon wrote:This is why I put my data (My Documents, Send To, Desktop, Favorites, etc.) on a seperate partition. I think the only thing I have to backup is outlook.
You can do the same with Outlook, just move the pst file(s) to the other drive where you'd like to keep them and on next startup of outlook it will ask you to locate them. Voila.

Yeah I forgot about that. When I do my re-install, I'll probably do that.

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