Topic: ME falling to pieces ??

[Michelle]

I was just wondering why no one had mentioned that, and then I thought maybe I've got it wrong then!



Its hard being a fake blonde you know!  

[daveeb]

Just an idea, dave, but have you thought of creating another drive on your HD, using Partition Magic or something similar?  You could then save all your downloaded stuff (I presume we are talking about MP3s, videos, etc) on the second drive, so that if you ever have to do a c: drive format in the future they remain untouched.

dave i have a second drive in the pc (and a third external one running {slowly} from usb1)so files i've created arent such a problem.  its things like NAV updates (3 years worth), oem program updates such as power dvd and nero, downloaded service packs, driver updates, etc etc renewing all these would be an absolute nightmare.  

[Tony]

Ah but if when you reinstall again, get it upto date with current service packs, and security patches. THEN image C:Drive and store that image on a seperate partition on the same Hard Drive or on another drive.

And assumming you store your own data on another partition, then any time ME starts "falling to pieces??" again. It can be put back to "as new" state by replacing the iffy C:Drive with the saved image, it takes less than 5 mins to reimage my C:Drive.

DO it once and do it right, and forget pulling your hair out at the prospect of hours of reformats, reinstalls and downloading up dates, setting it up just how you like it.

Plus besides having a clean "virgin" image, you can also have an image you up date say every month if you want.

You know it makes sense