[-Adrian]

• Wrote down all apps and drivers to reinstall √
• Wrote down settings and passwords √
• Shoved all personal files to other HDD √
• XP Disk is ready √

Wish me luck, bbl!

[Maximus3D]

May the Force be with you Adrian!

/ Max

[Mattia Sullini]

You forgot to cross your fingers....

[Leonardo]

you forgot to get some whiskey!

[tom]

Don't forget the bookmarks...

[yanada]

Don't forget the bookmarks...

[Bubbaloo]

Always fun...

[ivox3]

I'm going in the black hole next ... awfully sluggish round these parts. ..too sluggish.

Time to take that software shower .....

[LesliePere]

Deactivate Adobe CS - if you have it....

[Micha]

Why not make an image of your disk per an image tool?

[Hervé]

Why not make an image of your disk per an image tool?

yeah.. why...?

[Leonardo]

Why not make an image of your disk per an image tool?

yeah.. why...?

what program do you guy use?

[ivox3]

This is good .......


http://www.xxclone.com/

[Micha]

I use the tool from www.drivesnapshot.de, because I needed a solution for XP64.
Other tools allow to start the restore of the backup from within Windows and the Computer automatic restarts to do it. Drivesnapshot needs a boot disk for it. But since I can use a second machine to restore from a backup HDD to a new HDD, this is easy too. Also I like, that Drivesnapshot is very fast and compress the image. An image can easy explored as mounted drive.

[-Adrian]

Yay, why hello thar gentlemen!

It worked pretty well, my custom nlite copy directly installed all major drivers (expect sound) and set up the WLAN so i was online asap.

I reformatted (and swapped) two drives because i had originally given them 20GB each, thinking i wouldn't need more space and disk-maintenance tools would run quicker. Turns out I never used any disk-tools and had a hard time managing the puny space left

Don't forget the bookmarks...

Yeh everything Firefox/Internet related i took extra care of. You can include it into your XP setup with nlite as well, very handy.

Deactivate Adobe CS - if you have it....

Bummer, didn't think of that. Hope that doesn't give me too much trouble. XP surprisingly activated without any complaints, wasn't that easy last time. I can only assume MS got my Hardware checksum in their db now.

Why not make an image of your disk per an image tool?

What can i do with it though? I surely didn't want a carbon copy of my slowly deteriorating OS. That's why i formatted.