Recipe for Pain

1. Take one Toshiba M400 laptop running Windows XP Service Pack 2.
2. Carefully image the M400 disk using Paragon Drive Backup 6.0 onto two separate external disks.
3. Carefully copy all the document files onto further external disks, so that you have plenty of copies of all the important stuff.
4. Install Windows Vista onto Toshiba M400, wiping hard disk in process.
5. Remember some crucial files that are not in the document directories you copied onto external drives, but hey, I've got a drive image backup so no problem.
6. Fail to find the Paragon Drive Image program CD.

Comments

[MattJ]

When I installed Vista it automatically copied my old Windows installation and all the files on my C drive into a folder called Windows.old, are you sure yours didn't do the same? It's opne of the thinsg i really liked about it!

[Rob]

Nope. I did the full format install. But I have found the CD now....

[Jay W]

I should be ok on my desktop because I have two hard disks, and my C drive is partitioned. 60GB for Windows and Programs and 100GB for My Documents, so I can Format C: as many times as I like, and my documents which are on drive E: stay intact. Partitioning is great. I made a documents partition on my brother-in-law's PC and he prefers it that way in case I need to come on and reformat his PC.