Do you have another computer you can hook that hard drive to? then you can copy those files to that computer, then you could burn to a disk or flash drive or whatever. Or if your on a wireless network you could put them in the share folder so that you can copy them back on this computer... sounds complicating i know... lol
I know what you're saying, but i only have a laptop. The thing is, i just want to know that if i sstart up my gateway recovery, will it delete my backup partition...if someone knows please reply... I think it will just create a C: Drive without touching anything else but i am not 100% sure, especially with such important files. I dont want to burn off 45 gigs of files either lol. i usually just burn off the files before i format (formatted twice in the past), and then just wipe my whole hard drive, but this time i decided i could put all the files on a sepereate partition just to save a lot of time...Im sure there is a way to just create a C: partition and install windows on it, but i just dont exactly know what to do....Actually i think the C: drive still exists on my computer but there is no data on it at all since i formatted the partition.