PUTERS

[BigDadday]

Darn thing crashed the other day and insted of just doing a format and getting it over with I tried to undo whatever it was. No luck so reformat and am back again.

 

[fury]

Been there, done that, plenty of times in fact

I used to love the speed and responsiveness of a fresh install of Windows, but now I don't know any other kind, because I never have the same install of Windows for more than a few months.

 

[Neo]

ahhh nothing better than a virgin computer. even though its a pain at times....

 

[alex]

gonna have to do that to mine pretty soon. my son has been on mine for the last two months d/l music stuff and i think he got more than he bargained for. puter wouldn't boot up past the win2k logo, had to do a repair of win2k and still can't send an email......outlook says it can't find windows address book whenever i try to send one. tried to do a repair....didn't fix it. i was hoping to have my next generation puter by now but thanks to recent events and a 7.5% pay cut, can't swing it right now.

BTW - been running on this install for about 18 months now.

 

[Justintime]

yup i service my dads rig, 2 motherboards upgraded, more RAM , better cpu (athlon 1.1Ghz) ,vid card etc. its still got his original win2k install, from back when the HDD was in a k62 500 almost 2 yrs ago

 

[Kruz]

Been there to.... now! what I do is install a fresh copy of windows.
do all the updates, all the latest drivers, internet connection's..etc.etc. then make an Image of the drive with Norton Ghost. burn the Image to a cd and Wala!!! a recovery disc! I also make the cd Bootable.
I have a disc for Win2k-Win98-WinME. ready to go

 

[alex]

Kruz, that sounds like a good idea, think I will try that next time I reinstal.

 

[Nihilistic]

Well, ive been there, done that...20 or 30 times...

 

[Noite Escura]

In my current rig I created 2 partitions. One small (10%) With Windows instalation, office and smaller aplications, another greater for the games and porn . I also keep the CABs in directory in this greater partition. If I have to reinstall, I just format the smaller partition and reinstall from D:. It doesn't prevent me from reinstalling all aplications but at least I don't have to backup all the data and gamesaves (don't have CD recorder).

 

[fury]

I have a similar setup - a 4 gig partition for Windows and the swap file, then a 56 (with 2.75 gigs of slack because of partitioning issues, so it's only 53.25 gigs) with all my games, music, pictures , programs, documents and web pages.