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« on: March 20, 2009, 04:27:42 PM » |
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Hey all, I just signed up and have been on Call of Duty 5 alot. Unfortunately I have some comp issues that have made me decide to reinstall my OS, so I may not be around for a few days (depending on how much time I spend on it and when I start). I have started backing things up to my new hard drive and we'll see how it goes.
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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2009, 06:33:44 PM » |
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You should just install the new OS like normal...it will then create a folder called "Windows.old" in which everything will be in so you can move it or whatever you want to do with it. That is how I did it. I have had to reinstall Vista once like that and then I installed Windows 7 like that as well. Data is all still there...great way to do it as long as you have enough HDD space.
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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2009, 04:27:18 AM » |
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Honestly, I don't keep much on my C drive, most of my backing up is an other drive that I am moving to my fiance's computer. That and saved game files and such as my installed programs will need reinstalling and all. Ticks me off that I have to do this, but the bootsector is on the drive I'm removing, lol. I didn't want to reinstall until either Vista SP2 was out or Windows 7. I'm not really okay with installing windows 7 before it is finished. As you can tell, I haven't started the reinstall quite yet.
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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2009, 09:13:21 AM » |
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You should get chugging on that this weekend. When I did it a couple of weeks ago it just took me about 5 hours on a nice little Saturday.
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2009, 11:12:51 AM » |
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The important parts are done and I can play CoD5 again. My sleeping schedule has been messed up so I haven't really been able to run into anyone, what is a time that I might catch other BPN members playing CoD5?
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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2009, 04:34:25 PM » |
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Oh, in the evenings generally. Between 5pm EST and 10pm EST is what time most of us get on.
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2009, 10:02:06 AM » |
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I had some hard drive trouble, ran checkdisk so hopefully all is well. If not, I'll be crying myself to sleep tonight, lol. Ah, the joy of computers.
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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2009, 11:08:14 AM » |
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Yeah, I hear you there...computers are awesome when they work and don't have any problems...but when something goes wrong...it's normally tough to fix it.
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