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UH.............When you back up your hard drive, you ONLY need to back up your 'profile'. Backing up everyfile on your computer is a waste of time and CD's. You dont need to copy every file (Windows system files). Two reasons:
1. You should have a copy of your Windows installation cd and the cd's for your other installed programs. If your computer crashes, you can reinstall everything with those CD's.
2. Most importantly, backing up everything including system files is a waste because if your computer crashes, you CANT reload your system with those files. You cant reinstall programs with those files.
I highly recommend copying your 'profile' only. You can find your profile by :
1.Right click on the Start button
2. Explore
3. locate Local C and select
4. Located Documents and Settings and select
You will see a few profiles there, Administratator, All Users, Default Users, etc. Locate yours. For the most part, this is what you need. (There are some things that you will need to do first but i wont list that here unless you them)
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