pc reboot without loss

[Thug4Thug]

hi was wondeing if theres a way i can reboot and clean my pc without losing my music files

[AWS]

Move them to another disk.

[Thug4Thug]

how would i do this,and how would i reboot my pc
ive neva done it before

[Quillz]

how would i do this,and how would i reboot my pc
ive neva done it before

You mean reformat your hard drive? Well, do you know how to drag-'n-drop? If so, just select all your music files and drag them onto another hard drive, then reformat the original hard drive with an OS CD, such as Windows.

[Joe Gronlund]

Or burn them to CD/DVD

[Vile]

And unless your computer is a custom built one, use the restore/recovery CD/DVD that came with it when you bought it...Unless it's a newer PC since most no longer come with recovery CD/DVD', so you have to create it within Windows, then use it to do the recovery.

If it is a custom built PC, then use your original Windows CD to reinstall after you backup your data.

[Floris]

Important!

If you have ONE hard drive they can show as drive C and drive D on your computer. Sometimes they split the drives up in multiple partitions.

If you wish to have your data secure you can best burn it to a disk or make sure you have 2 hard drives and move the data from the C drive to the D drive. When you run format it is per drive.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I am really confused here. The guy ask how to reboot, and everyone starts talking about re-install.

[Thug4Thug]

I am really confused here. The guy ask how to reboot, and everyone starts talking about re-install.

sorry thats what i ment re install
i just no it as rebootfor sum reason
and others must to lol

[AWS]

When you run format it is per drive.

Nope. It is by partition if you do it with the Windows install cd. If you do it with a disk utility like Maxblast then it will format the whole disk. Even then I think new versions will do by partition.

[Joe Page]

Or burn them to CD/DVD

Depending on how much music we're talking about, flash drives etc. would be fine also