Saving music in a reinstall

tuxify

tuxify

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I'm going to reinstall windows... again...
Normally I'd just pop the windows XP install disk into my CD drive, and reboot, but I recently acquired about 80 gigs of music. I was wondering if it were possible (short of saving all the music to a CD/s) to save just the music folder to my HD, but reinstall every other part of it.
Thanks.
 
tuxify said:
I'm going to reinstall windows... again...
Normally I'd just pop the windows XP install disk into my CD drive, and reboot, but I recently acquired about 80 gigs of music. I was wondering if it were possible (short of saving all the music to a CD/s) to save just the music folder to my HD, but reinstall every other part of it.
Thanks.
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Just make another partition inside of windows and then transfer all of your music over to that partition and then when you reformat only format the first (main) partition with windows on it.
 
g25racer said:
Just make another partition inside of windows and then transfer all of your music over to that partition and then when you reformat only format the first (main) partition with windows on it.
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How would I go about making a partition inside of windows?
 
i would get a gparted livecd, make an ntfs partition, and then in windows, drag-and-drop the music into that partiton. then reinstal xp on the windows partition and tehn drag-and-drop the music back into windows.
 
isnt it easy just to buy a portable hardrive that way you can keep a backup aswell but dont do the stupid thing i did if you do format it by accident:(
 
I could buy an external HD if I had the money to spend on that, but I don't. I tried making a partition with this program that crashed half way through the partitioning, so I went into the disk manager and formatted the already created partition. I can't figure out how to cut a partition out of my C: drive without using a stupid program, and I'd rather just do it through windows. Any ideas?
 
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