Comments on: Reformatting Windows XP the RIGHT way http://icrontic.com/articles/reformatting-the-right-way If geeks love it, we're on it. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:35:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Leonardo http://icrontic.com/articles/reformatting-the-right-way/comment-page-1#comment-1081 Leonardo Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:35:09 +0000 http://icrontic.com/?p=15832#comment-1081 Excellent! From A to Z. Excellent! From A to Z.

]]> By: Ben http://icrontic.com/articles/reformatting-the-right-way/comment-page-1#comment-495 Ben Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:32:32 +0000 http://icrontic.com/?p=15832#comment-495 On the size of the C drive partition: the problem there is that your desktop and the contents of Documents and Settings are automatically stored on the same drive as your OS. You might want to move your My Documents (which is easy), and you can re-define the locations of your Desktop, Temp directory, and Documents and Settings Branch in the registry, although this can get messy as it seems some programs use the registry while others will persist in using the C drive. On the use of NTFS: Last time I checked Linux based recovery CD's have a hard time dealing with NTFS drives, so be prepared to not have that option. On the size of the C drive partition: the problem there is that your desktop and the contents of Documents and Settings are automatically stored on the same drive as your OS. You might want to move your My Documents (which is easy), and you can re-define the locations of your Desktop, Temp directory, and Documents and Settings Branch in the registry, although this can get messy as it seems some programs use the registry while others will persist in using the C drive.

On the use of NTFS: Last time I checked Linux based recovery CD’s have a hard time dealing with NTFS drives, so be prepared to not have that option.

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