The stuff you always forget to save before a format

shadowake said:
Like I said in a previous post, just burn a copy of the free hirens boot cd and clone the drive with norton ghost ;)
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I assume there is no way to do the same whilst upgrading to win7 and changing to 64-bit? Like installing Win7 on a new HDD, then copying the settings over so it runs as normal with win7 clean installed on a new HDD. Then how would I go about removing vista from my old HDD and just leaving the files?
 
Bookmarks. Done it so many times now, very annoying. Now I just save them whenever I remember regardless of if Im going to format.

Other than that, all my other files are on another Partition and on other HDs.
 
Dom_UK said:
Bookmarks. Done it so many times now, very annoying. Now I just save them whenever I remember regardless of if Im going to format.

Other than that, all my other files are on another Partition and on other HDs.
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use xmarks and you wont have that problem anymore, auto syncs everytime you close the browser so always has your latest additions :D link further up the page (post#8)
 
I once forgot to save my lvl 55 cod4 profile, thankfully though i found an old lvl 50 profile id saved earlier on an external hdd.
 
If you run a steam account

copy the following folders from your main steam folder:

steam
steamapps
+ steam shortcut icon

once formatted copy/cut and paste back to any partition/place with a folder called steam in it.
when you first run steam it will apply updates and then all you got to do is re install your games from the my games tab
 
Essexraptor said:
If you run a steam account

copy the following folders from your main steam folder:

steam
steamapps
+ steam shortcut icon

once formatted copy/cut and paste back to any partition/place with a folder called steam in it.
when you first run steam it will apply updates and then all you got to do is re install your games from the my games tab
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You don't even need to do that. Just copy the entire top-level steam folder, to whereever you want it. Then doubleclick the steam.exe file inside it, and it will run, performing whatever registrations it needs to - you'll just need to enter your username and password.

I've done this on three builds now.

Once there was a glitch, and I just downloaded the steam app and reinstalled it into that folder and all was well. The other two times, it just worked.
 
im very organized these days :)

But the last time it messed up was when i formatted a HP machine, overlooking how difficult it would be to get the crappy HP drivers for everything again.
 
I've been lucky for the last few years, i've lost some things in the past due to a Windows installations going wonky (never had a hard drive die though - and i've owned computers since the Amiga 500!) but i've only lost a few things from forgetting to back them up.

I just keep everything on a separate Raid 1 drive these days, even my mail store writes directly to that drive. I have quite a lot of music/photos/steam backups etc.. on there and it's worked great for me so far. Only thing i have on my main drive is W7 64bit/Ableton Live/Steam/Zbrush/Foobar and that's it.

Usually takes me about an hour to completely reformat, set windows up exactly how i want it, and reinstall all my programs.
 
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