tom jersey Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 My computers very slow running shit, ACER (C:) only 276 MB free from 35.5 GB, ACERDATA (D:) has 33.2 GB free from 35.9 GB, i want to restore my computer so that theres nothing except all of my music and trials video also school work and then delete everything else but it wont let me restore my computer as i did it quite recently can anyone help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dr. Nick Riviera Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 What do you mean by restore it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
531joshua Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 you cant restore it to free up disk space really... if you mean what i think you mean, you want to format the hard drive, but the only way you can keep your music/school work/videos is if you store these files seperatly (usually on disc or on an external hard drive if you like), then wipe your pc's hard drive and re-install windows. then once youve sorted your new operating system out add your files containing music/school work/videos etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom jersey Posted June 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 Wipe it i spose. I have so much shit i just want to start again but keep files etc. you cant restore it to free up disk space really... if you mean what i think you mean, you want to format the hard drive, but the only way you can keep your music/school work/videos is if you store these files seperatly (usually on disc or on an external hard drive if you like), then wipe your pc's hard drive and re-install windows. then once youve sorted your new operating system out add your files containing music/school work/videos etc. Ok so how exactly do i do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikedude789 Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 Isn't there a software called partition magic which allows you to create a seperate drive consquently allowing you to restore another drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
531joshua Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 yeah in that case stick all your files you wanna keep onto a dvd. or several depending on the size of your files.. then re-install windows, youll need a cd to do this of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 save important stuff on USB stick. put Windows CD in, boot from disc, format, install Windows brand new computer, put important stuff back on computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom jersey Posted June 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 Thank You for all the help you all have 5 Tommy Points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Campbell Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 By the looks of your first message you have a partitioned hard drive (something acer do a lot so it's likely). Basically if you move everything you want to keep onto your D: you can then Format the C: and reinstall windows etc and not have to worry about burning eleventy million DVDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 By the looks of your first message you have a partitioned hard drive (something acer do a lot so it's likely). Basically if you move everything you want to keep onto your D: you can then Format the C: and reinstall windows etc and not have to worry about burning eleventy million DVDs. Do that. Alternatively your computer will probably run around twice as fast if you free up a gigabyte of space on c: (by moving stuff to d:, for example). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 By the looks of your first message you have a partitioned hard drive (something acer do a lot so it's likely). Basically if you move everything you want to keep onto your D: you can then Format the C: and reinstall windows etc and not have to worry about burning eleventy million DVDs. Yep Alternatively your computer will probably run around twice as fast if you free up a gigabyte of space on c: (by moving stuff to d:, for example). and yep. With the computer only having 60GB of hard drive space i'd imagine its pretty old, so hasn't got a lot of ram either. This means your computer will be opening programs and trying to run them from the ram, but if its full it'll stick them in a special place on your hard drive. If theres no more room on the windows partition (yours is C:\) then it won't be able to use the cache and will have to read files/programs directly from their space on the drive... which is a lot slower. Ideally freeing up 1-2GB on the C: drive will help out no end. Which is easily doable if you just re-direct your "my documents" folder to the D drive. You should be able to do this easily by right clicking on my documents on the start bar then choosing properties and location and typing in a location on D: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 just re-direct your "my documents" folder to the D drive. You should be able to do this easily by right clicking on my documents on the start bar then choosing properties and location and typing in a location on D: I don't think that actually moves any files though, it just redirects the shortcut. So you'd have to manually move all the files from the 'old' my docs folder (wherever windows keeps that) to the new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 I'd move all you pics and music to the D partition first before you try reinstalling the OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 I don't think that actually moves any files though, it just redirects the shortcut. So you'd have to manually move all the files from the 'old' my docs folder (wherever windows keeps that) to the new one. It did with mine. I might have clicked the "move" button though and just re-directed it that way. Either way though, its doable through right clicking and properties then just telling it where to stick it. No manual moving required. I'd move all you pics and music to the D partition first before you try reinstalling the OS. He'd have to mate. Re-installing windows will wipe the drive first, then put windows back on. All picures, music, vids and programs get deleted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Nah I meant try moving the pics and videos to free up space on the C, to try and get it to run better. I'd do that and run some cleaning stuff and do a defrag. If that didn't work then go down the reformat route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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