Re: [PCWorks] Installation of XP questions

I've never tried it, but from the sound of it I believe that 
"Backup" under System Tools will backup EVERYTHING.  "All 
information on this computer".  This is in the basic mode.  You 
can go to Advanced mode and "Backup wizard" and "Backup 
everything on this computer".

As to if "creating a new partition" will delete everything, I 
can't say for sure because every time I've done that I didn't 
want to save anything, but reformat.  Since nothing was saved 
from the previous install, obviously I can conclude from that 
it deletes the drive.  However, this was because I chose to 
create new partitions.  But I believe you can create a new 
partition then install XP on that new partition, but that's 
iffy because it has to move all the data on the drive to make 
the room for the new partition.  Something like that is best 
done with a partitioning program.

Again, I've never tried to do any of that so I can't answer 
that part for sure.  Now that I remember, I have in the past 
deleted the Windows partition directory and started over on 
that C: partition and my other partitions were intact.   I had 
the main C: Windows partition and a storage partition--which 
remained untouched.  I don't know if that's exactly what you 
want because I don't know if you want to save files on the C: 
area or another.
-Clint

God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LarryB"

I notice that when you put your disk in for XP you have 
choices. One is
to repair and another is to install a fresh copy.

My questions are when you do a fresh copy you are asked to make 
a
partition.
Does that delete all files on you hd?
Is there anyway to install a fresh copy without deleting the 
files on
the hd?
I have made a backup of all my data files with the M$ backup 
utility on
the computer so I'm not worried about that. It is just 
reinstalling
programs that I really do not want to do.



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