[Essexboy]

With XP - when I had it on my system I reformated and reinstalled annualy as it tended to get slow and I am the impatient type. Mindst you I am a dab hand at doing that and I had down to less than an hour

[Advertisements]

See i would reformat,i really would! Only thing is, my boyfriend has flippin iTunes and to "try" to keep my computer free of files, he makes a phantom (or w/e you call it) of the mp3 and deletes the actual one. IF i do reformat, all his music that hes paid for goes with it. Yeah its his fault for not keeping these mp3s on like a flash drive or a dc or something but i cant just do that.

[SakiKitty]

See i would reformat,i really would! Only thing is, my boyfriend has flippin iTunes and to "try" to keep my computer free of files, he makes a phantom (or w/e you call it) of the mp3 and deletes the actual one. IF i do reformat, all his music that hes paid for goes with it. Yeah its his fault for not keeping these mp3s on like a flash drive or a dc or something but i cant just do that.

[Essexboy]

Looking at your drive, a good alternative would be to partition it inot two and then place all the I-tunes on the D drive (to be). Then any reformat/re-install would not affect them - I have my Itunes music on my d drive

[SakiKitty]

Then you would have to step me through that... just when im ready D: i dont wanna deal with the straight ANNOYANCE of reformating right now.
So for now, i feel it would be appropriate to close this topic until im ready (since it looks like that the only option we have left) then you can reopen it when i PM you and you can step me through it Good idea?

[Essexboy]

Fine by I m'dear. I do know of a free programme that will partition a disk on the fly

Let me know when you are ready

[SakiKitty]

Yeah but i dunno what that does D:

[Essexboy]

It takes your 500GB drive and makes it into two drives of whatever size you want

[SakiKitty]

and you can choose to reformat one? (see this is why you should be on msn because things would be smoother xD)

[Essexboy]

Yep you refomat the partition with windows on and the other stays as it is with no changes

[SakiKitty]

I dont know if i'll be able to do this sucessfully without someone stepping me through it all the way x_X

[Essexboy]

OK let me know when you have a bit of time spare, it could take upwards of an hour to do