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jim sturtz
i just had a hiccup on my main drive and it lost its partitioning & boot
area. a utility got it back for me, but it has me trying to find a better
way. reinstalling windows is a pita but having to redo all my programs
would have been more so.
i can make backups of all the stuff on my boot drive and pretty much not
have to worry about where they are stored as they can be 'copied' back, but
having a backup of windows just wont work well.
so i am thinking of cloning the boot partition and the minimum necessary to
run windows should things go south.
however, windows is 3.5 gig, docs & settings is 2 gig and program files is 4
gig. i guess you can do a multi-disk dvd clone but if i uninstall/reinstall
my programs and move as much as possible to another drive that would buy me
some space.
i know winxp wasnt that big when i first installed it, it collects over a
period of time lots of backups of things within its path, and maybe docs &
settings too.
is there a resource that could point me to things that can safely be removed
from the windows folder (.dmp files, $hf_mig$, $ntuinstallkbxxxx and other
stuff) anything else that doesnt need to be there? old copies of .dlls?
i would like to get the boot partition down to the size of a dvd and move
everything else off to another drive. is this only a pipedream?
maybe someone has already written up a .doc file on how to achieve this?
thanks.
jim
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
area. a utility got it back for me, but it has me trying to find a better
way. reinstalling windows is a pita but having to redo all my programs
would have been more so.
i can make backups of all the stuff on my boot drive and pretty much not
have to worry about where they are stored as they can be 'copied' back, but
having a backup of windows just wont work well.
so i am thinking of cloning the boot partition and the minimum necessary to
run windows should things go south.
however, windows is 3.5 gig, docs & settings is 2 gig and program files is 4
gig. i guess you can do a multi-disk dvd clone but if i uninstall/reinstall
my programs and move as much as possible to another drive that would buy me
some space.
i know winxp wasnt that big when i first installed it, it collects over a
period of time lots of backups of things within its path, and maybe docs &
settings too.
is there a resource that could point me to things that can safely be removed
from the windows folder (.dmp files, $hf_mig$, $ntuinstallkbxxxx and other
stuff) anything else that doesnt need to be there? old copies of .dlls?
i would like to get the boot partition down to the size of a dvd and move
everything else off to another drive. is this only a pipedream?
maybe someone has already written up a .doc file on how to achieve this?
thanks.
jim
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general