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What should I back up when reformating?

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DyslexicHobo

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I'm reformating my PC, and I need to know what I should save.

I'd like to save the drivers and stuff... but I don't know exactly how. I was planning on copying my entire WINDOWS folder to my new format, but it won't let me copy some things.

I have two hard drives, so I'm just planning on copying what I need over to the second drive, then putting it back on the new C drive, that would work, right?
 
You don't have to back up your windows folder. That's just a waste of time.
Back up your My Documents folder, back up your IE/Firefox my favourites
Back up any other stuff you want
 
Other people can help you better than I, but from now on, I would save all install files for your drivers into a special folder (maybe in a subfolder of C:\download or whatever). I would also actually INSTALL all drivers into the same folder when possible, so (just in case) it's easy to look at the files later. I also usually copy all the files from all driver disks to my drivers folder as I go. It can save a lot of time-- say you just installed a new OS, you don't necessarily want to hunt for all the right network and video drivers again.
 
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