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What did I forget to back up?
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:55 am
by Transient
About to format the hard drive and reinstall windows. What did I forget?
- Music
- Personal files
- Bookmarks
- E-mails
- pr0n
fap! fap! fap!
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:57 am
by Grandpa Stu
your soul? really sucks when you lose those.
game saves? word documents?
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:59 am
by Guest
TV Showz
Moviez
Applicationz
Downloadz
Gamez
ISOz
DVDz
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:08 am
by Scourge
passwords/logins
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:08 am
by SOAPboy
Driver installs? like, latest nic drivers and such?
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:10 am
by Transient
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.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:17 am
by Scourge
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.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:23 am
by Canis
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.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:31 am
by Scourge
No, I think the registry would fuck with a lot of it. I think I tried that once and it ended in complete disaster.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:52 pm
by MKJ
ToxicBug wrote:TV Showz
Moviez
Applicationz
Downloadz
Gamez
ISOz
DVDz
youre only cool if you use a z at the end of a word
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:53 pm
by MKJ
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
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:47 pm
by eepberries
This thread is major dejavu
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:52 pm
by Canis
What is the point of the registry?
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:53 pm
by eepberries
It's important. I'll tell you that much
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:53 pm
by Canis
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:01 pm
by Guest
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
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:35 pm
by FragaGeddon
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.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:37 pm
by Guest
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
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:59 pm
by FragaGeddon
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.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:00 pm
by FragaGeddon
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.