Reformatting

I'd like to reformat my computer. My problem is, I don't want to lose the stuff on my D (secondary) drive. Does anyone know which options in the restore I should select in order to keep everything on my D drive and restore everything on the C?

 

I don't know, but i'm pretty sure that if you reformat your hard drives, you'll wipe out your restore points too. If you want to keep everything on your secondary drive, i recommend not formatting it. Alternatively, if you have a CD Writer, i'd backup the files you can't do without, and install them after the format.

If you're wanting to get rid of some useless files and free up some space, instead of reformatting you could try running:

CCLeaner, http://majorgeeks.com/download4191.html

This clears old temp files and things. This program can free up gigabytes of space in about a minute!

Hope this helped!!

 

Following on from Radiofools hint on CCleaner, I suggest that you download and run

Cleanup! http://www.stevengould.org/ Freeware 3.1
and
EmpTemp http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1575 Not for XP yet?

These will catch stuff that CrapCleaner misses. Run all 3 regularly, all free, and don't conflict with each other. Clean index.dat out regularly, as well. Bazza

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Uh-huh, and how do I do such a thing?

 

Cleanup! and/or CrapCleaner should do it automatically for you. You usually have to reboot straight after running either of them to clean out index.dat. I delete index.dat manually by running a batch file in my W98SE laptop. Do a FIND or SEARCH for index.dat (you must have "Show all files" set, as index.dat is normally hidden.

To do this for W98.

In Windows Explorer, go to TOOLS, then FOLDER OPTIONS, then VIEW, then FILES and FOLDERS, down to Hidden files (folder) and click on Show all files.

Not sure how ,if you are using XP, someone will advise you.

Once your search shows you all the instances of index.dat, write down the paths and file sizes. Run CC or Cleanup! and reboot straight away.

Once you are back in Windows, after reboot, do another Search/Find for index.dat and note down the sizes again. You should see a substantial reduction. Default sizes in W98 are around 16mb or 32mb. In XP, I think they are slightly larger. It is not uncommon to see huge index.dat files if you haven't cleaned them out before. Let us know how you go. Bazza

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