-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Does a reformat lose all installed programs? WAS: giveaway of the ...
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:55:48 -0400
Dolores,
A reformat wipes the entire drive volume, so you will lose everything on
it that isn't backed up elsewhere. Even if you back up the entire volume,
you will still have to reinstall all of your programs once the operating
system has been reinstalled. It's for this reason that a good backup plan
should be a part of everyone's computer maintenance chores. All of your
important images, song files, documents, etc. (including the games & stuff
that you download) can easily be burned to a CD or DVD for safekeeping, just
in case your OS ever decides to fail on you.
Peace,
Gman
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dolores" <dshelham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:38 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- giveaway of the day and free game (on weekends)
> Yesterday when I finally just did a system restore, reloaded ACDSee and
> found out it was indeed the problem, a thought came to me. Now that's
> pretty scary as there isn't too much brain matter left. Anyhow am I
> correct
> in that if for some reason I had to reformat (please dear God don't let
> that
> happen!) I would lose them all right? That's a bummer but I guess it has
> to
> be or otherwise people would be sngging them and putting them on different
> computers. I've managed to pick up a few programs and games from there
> that
> I enjoy. Dolores
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