Going to Reformat Computer, Best/Favorite Ways To Backup?

[footballjds]

I also agree, reformatting in a ton of fun!
It's just very scary/crucial that you remember to back everything up :/, besides that I love the fresh feeling!
Thanks.

I personally just drag/drop my entire HDD to an external HDD and then just throw it right back after a reformat

[Rezozo]

http://ninite.com/

Somebody recommended this to my when I restored my computer. Try it out.

[grats]

I hate partitioning just for OS with windows.. that's the biggest hassle ever to just have a simple desktop where you don't want crap loads of stuff loading to that partition and filling it up..

I normally just external drive everything

[xtrapsp]

Create a New Partition

make a backup of your data—you're going to be formatting drives and re-installing OSes, so anything could go wrong, and you don't want to lose your whole system. When you're ready, we'll need to create some space for data partition on your hard drive. Open the Start Menu and right click on the "Computer" option. Click "Manage", and in the window that appears, click on "Disk Management" in the left sidebar.


Find your system hard disk in the graphical list that appears in the bottom pane. Right-click on it and then click "Shrink Volume". Shrink it down so you have at least 20GB of space left on the end of the drive, and click OK. Then, click on the "Unallocated" block of that drive that appears and click "New Simple Volume". Click Next on the next few windows until you get to the "Format Partition" window. Here, give it a volume label you'll recognize (like "Data") and click Next. It should format the drive for you. Now you're all set to reinstall Windows 7. (JUST NOT ONTO THE DATA PARTITION!!!!)