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Subject:RE: Checklist for Reformatting From:"Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:24:41 -0700
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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om] On Behalf Of Gene Kim-Eng
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
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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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