Originally I attempted to reformat and ran into several problems. One, the installer from XP wanted to create a dual booting Operating System....2 XP's!! Uh no thanks. Then it kept crashing! So after a few attempts I finally called tech support (father-in-law) and picked his brain the next morning. He had several great ideas. He also confirmed what I feared as well. If I did a total drive format it would erase my other partitions on the drive. Which would have been a tragedy!! I have all my back up documents, files, PSP goodies, photos, you name it & it was there on one of those partitions! So contrary to what the forums on the web stated, you cannot delete the original partitions (the C: drive) and not lose the info on your partitions. Something to do with the fact that the file format information for the additional partitions is stored within the files of the C: partition. If that goes, so does the information about the partitions & they go POOF! Not an option.
I finally gave up and handed the phone to my husband. He proceeded to fill in the blanks and it turned out that my hard drive was causing the issue. Not that there is anything wrong. It's a RAID HD, and because of that we were supposed to load the drivers for it at the beginning of set up. Since I hadn't been doing that, well, it was redirecting to another drive, causing problems & crashes! OOPS! Once that got solved we proceeded to install XP. You would think that was the end of this saga, but sadly not!
Once we got the OS loaded I noticed things were not loading properly, so I finally got fed up with the errors & proceeded to redo the OS again. When we were going through the process we noticed the drive was missing a considerable chunk of space. By the 3rd go around (I know, w3rd times a charm!) we realized the OS was just installing multiple copies on top of each other & not erasing the original files, which is not what I wanted! I finally managed to get the drive formatted and cleared (but not total aniliation that would have screwed up my partitions) and got a clean install. Since then it's been a lot better & all of my programs have installed with no errors, crashes or headaches!
So there it is, that's the reformat saga. I got my Incredimail back on, it took a few hours because of all the files that I needed to import (letters, animaations etc) and finally loaded PSP. I actually made some new stats, which says a lot since I haven't really been making things lately. 3 stats in the last month....and nothing for over 9 months I think. Personal life and work had taken over and I just didn't have the energy yanno??
Anyway, I'll post the header images for your viewing pleasure. Maybe I'll add the IMF for you IM users that would like them. Comments are welcome! That is, if anyone actually reads this! LOL
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