RE: Checklist for Reformatting

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

I'd second Gene's suggestion. I just did the same thing. After several
hours spent trying to restore a corrupted OS, I went out and got a 300
GB Western Digital EIDE drive for $50 at Circuit City. After installing
it as my primary drive, I simply reinstalled the OS (and updates). I now
have three times more memory and my system is faster. (Note: be sure to
get the right type of drive for your system). After I'm sure I do not
need any data from my old 80 GB drive, I'll reformat it and use it for
backups.

Leonard C. Porrello
SoleraTec LLC
www.soleratec.com
 
 

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Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:10 AM
To: Nancy Allison; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Checklist for Reformatting

If your computer is more than a year or two old, 
you can probably buy a new HD for lass than $100
that will be significantly faster and twice the size of 
the one that came with the system.  You can just
reconfigure the original HD as a secondary/slave
drive and have all your current files preserved until
you're sure you won't need them.

A couple of months ago I did this with the 80Gb
HD that came with my 2005 system.  The new
drive cost $60, has read/write speeds about 20% 
faster than the old one and is 240Gb. 

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
> It's time to reformat my hard drive, but despite 
> saving almost everything to an external HP 
> Personal media drive, I'm scared to death that 
> I will lose key data. 
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