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    Can I format laptop but keep some files?? Partitioning?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by WhySoSerious, Oct 27, 2009.

  1. WhySoSerious

    WhySoSerious Notebook Consultant

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    Hi, I want to format my hard drive due to a couple of errors and it being quite slow recently. Can I partion the hard drive into two, and transfer my files onto the hard drive, and then format the other hard drive?

    I would put them on a dvd or USB, but theres over 30GB of videos and music and such I want to keep and havn't got external memory big enough.


    I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium.
    Can I do this? and how? can someone write me inscructions please.

    Thanks. :)
     
    WhySoSerious, Oct 27, 2009
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  2. roosta

    roosta Notebook Evangelist

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    you can, but its not a clean format of the hard drive if your partitioning it and it wont solve many errors if its the hard drives fault. it will allow a clean install of your operating system again though if its that thats causing the errors.

    if you have an ipod classic or some other high capacity media player you can wipe it, set it to disk use, copy everything across to it, format your hard drive, reinstall your operating system then copy everything back across.
     
    roosta, Oct 27, 2009
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