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March 26th 03, 01:32 AM
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If you have enough room, copy everything you want to save to a temporary
folder on the drive you're not formatting. If you have a CD-R or RW drive, you may want to check out Image for Windows from http://www.bootitng.com/imagew.html -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "jawsquip" wrote in message ... I want to add a second hard drive and completely format it.. I want back up some stuff or could it be stored somewhere as an image whilst I do it? Thanks Jawsquip 
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March 26th 03, 02:10 AM
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Just install your second hd as slave . then start your
computer . open my computer then select the files you want to save from the second drive and transfer them to your 1st drive. After that go to the my computer screen right click on the drive you want to format and select format. this should do it.-----Original Message----- If you have enough room, copy everything you want to save to a temporary folder on the drive you're not formatting. If you have a CD-R or RW drive, you may want to check out Image for Windows from http://www.bootitng.com/imagew.html -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "jawsquip" wrote in message ... I want to add a second hard drive and completely format it.. I want back up some stuff or could it be stored somewhere as an image whilst I do it? Thanks Jawsquip .
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March 26th 03, 02:24 AM
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Isn't that about what I said?
-- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "JT" wrote in message ... Just install your second hd as slave . then start your computer . open my computer then select the files you want to save from the second drive and transfer them to your 1st drive. After that go to the my computer screen right click on the drive you want to format and select format. this should do it.-----Original Message----- If you have enough room, copy everything you want to save to a temporary folder on the drive you're not formatting. If you have a CD-R or RW drive, you may want to check out Image for Windows from http://www.bootitng.com/imagew.html -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "jawsquip" wrote in message ... I want to add a second hard drive and completely format it.. I want back up some stuff or could it be stored somewhere as an image whilst I do it? Thanks Jawsquip .
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