Posted by tranquil
I've get my hands on the XP Meda Center version and need to know something:
It wants to reinstall XP when I wack in the CD and tells me some files will be lost unless I do a back up of them.
Wich files will I loose?
(PS No, it's not a crack, hack or anything like that. It's the real McCoy!)
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Posted by 50Cent
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=105013
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Posted by Cycovision
All of your documents, music, movies, photos etc!
Treat it as a fresh install, back up all of your documents and media first and make sure you have the CDs / installer packages for your applications
Posted by tranquil
OK, thanks.
I better leave it then.
I've got about 4500 pictures stored in that PC.
Posted by Cycovision
Yeah, I'd leave it until you absolutely need to reinstall, just in case. Media Centre is only XP with a few pretty bits and extra apps anyway
Posted by axxxr
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Christ that many...what kind of pictures?
I have a few myself but 4500....they must be good,care to share?
Posted by tranquil
Oh, not much to share mate.
Private pictures taken with my F828; Holiday, family members, a lot of the kids and so on.
Posted by snoop69
You had best start backing them up anyway.
You only need your computer to crash or have hard drive
failure & you could lose them anyway.
When they are all backed up you can then think about
installing media centre.
Do it now while everythings working!!!
Posted by EastCoastStar
you could probobly burn all those pics onto one DVD - just for a backup
Posted by tranquil
Thanks, I'm in the prosess of copying them over to a free Norwegian pic storage center.
It's going to take a while though. After doing a fair bit of weeding I'm left with about 3300 pictures with an average size of 3,2MB.
Posted by tranquil
I'm determin to do this!
I'm now doing a backup of my laptop to an external PC.
It's takin forever to move all the data over but I'm a stubourn old man.
I'll let you know everything that went wrong when it's all done.
Posted by Cycovision
Yeah, better safe than sorry. Id it an upgrade disk or just a straight install disk?
Obviously, an upgrade shouldn't delete your documents but I wouldn't bet my life on it!
Posted by tranquil
Nah...
I'm draining my lap top completly to do a fresh installation from scratch.
As I move stuff back I'll delete a lot of crap I've collected on it over the years.
Posted by vanquish
u got a network?