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Clean Install of Windows Without Loss of Data

Published by William_Wilson
03-22-2006

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If you have multiple hard drives you may wish to skip ahead, as you can transfer files from your windows drive to another. IF you do not then you require a partition.

A parition seperates your drive so windows will treat it like 2 seperate drives, allowing you to destroy one, and leave the other completely intact!

I have not found any reliable freeware partitioning tools, that will work for all drive formats, but you can use the Partition Magic trial. The full version is expensive so if you are not constantly using this product this will be enough.


You want to create a logical partition to store your precious data. while you format and install XP again.

(I actually encourage all computer users to divide their main drive for this very reason.. in the case of an accident where making the partition is impossible, this will be a life savor!)


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By Mikeg on 05-23-2006, 04:11 PM
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William

What if you had already partitioned your whole hard drive with just one partition. Wil Partition magic allow you to use the unused space on the partition to create another partition?
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By Sami on 05-23-2006, 04:19 PM
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Yes partition magic will partition existiing partition, it will resize the existing partition and will create a new second partition.
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By William_Wilson on 05-29-2006, 01:29 AM
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partition magic allows for the creation and/or splitting of any partition, as long as the size is larger than the size required to create the table of contents for the drive, up to the limits of your drive.
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By geercom on 03-16-2007, 08:47 AM
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Very cool tip! Why not simply split a larger drive in half and put all OS and Apps on both partitions with dual boot? With an external HDD for the rest of your data, you can simply boot into the other OS instance and pull data you're working on from the Ext HDD.
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By William_Wilson on 03-16-2007, 10:46 AM
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that is an option, but i don't know if the average user wants to dual boot, or owns an external drive, but that is definatly an option!
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By Bobby_b on 06-16-2007, 10:44 AM
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If I have programs stored on a seperate drive, will they be affected when I clean install the C drive?
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