Re: On-line registry backup
"300GigLoss" <300GigLoss@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Today I had the pleasure to wiggle my mouse to bring my 3 month old PC
> alive,
> only to see a blue screen: hive corrupted.
>
> After three hours of trying to get the PC to repair, I finally settled on
> a
> re-install of Windows Ultimate. During the re-install, I was prompted to
> load
> my RAID drivers (so I could select the disk I want to install on). Once
> the
> drivers were loaded, I selected my disk and was informed that Windows
> Setup
> couldn't access the disk. Tried a few things, and finally - after a long
> sigh
> - decided to hit the "new" link - which created a new partition on the
> drive.
> Once that was done, Windows all of the sudden could access the disk, the
> install began, and I lost over 300 gigs of personal data, software,
> photos,
> and images (i.e. everything installed on the PC).
>
Anyone who keeps their personal data (300GB in your case) on the same
partition as the OS and doesn't make backups is mad in my book.
When you install Vista again, create one partition for the OS (say about
40GB), then use the second one for your stuff. If you get a Windows failure
and have to re-install, you won't lose everything. Your
Documents/pictures/music folders can be moved to the other drive easily
enough.