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Old 06-16-2004, 04:35 AM
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Hi again Timberland

So long as you take a few deep breaths, count to 10, you will be ok. Unlike David Beckham missing his penalty against France!: LOL

Just go by the link I gave you and you should have no problems. It would be a good idea to print out the instructions, prior to clean installing.

Re: Backing up. Everybody has their own favourite method of backing up, and, so long as you do things correctly and not make rash decisions, they are usually all acceptable.

Personally speaking, backup what you consider essential items. I.e. Important data, project work, software that you do not have a hard copy of, music, movies, etcetera, to either of your 120GB drives.

Then, after you have installed XP and tweaked it to the way you like it, invest in disk cloning software, such as Norton Ghost 2003 and take an image of your HDD. That way, if you ever encounter an emergency, you can safely copy the cloned image back onto your windows partition, usually in less than half an hour, and you are back where you started when you first cloned the HDD. In addition, you also have the benefit of the earlier saved data on the 120GB HDD as well.

Good luck, whatever you decide to do.................
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