Before performing a clean installation of Windows XP (Windows Vista offers the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard to help with this) you’ll need to backup all of your personal data. This includes documents, pictures, movies, music files, and more.
There’s a lot more to it than that though. You will also need to gather up:
* all of the applications you use Dell Inspiron 9400 Battery, including their product or activation keys. Hopefully these are burned to a CD for easy re-installation.
* the registration numbers for products that you installed directly from the Web, such as FTP clients or other utilities. You might find these codes in old e-mail correspondence.
* the hardware drivers that you use to support devices such as printers, digital cameras, scanners, PCMCIA cards Dell latitude d620 Battery, Wi-Fi hardware, and so on. It’s likely that you have these drivers stored on the CDs that came with the devices you installed. If you installed newer drivers from the Internet, make sure that you back up copies of these drivers.
* your e-mail files, so that you have copies of your personal inbox and outbox e-mails.
* a paper summary containing all of your registration keys and other data needed to Install all those applications you've paid for.
Tip: To back up any driver Dell latitude d830 Battery, you must know where it is located on the hard drive. Often, it's in the C:\Windows\system32\drivers folder. You can get more information about any driver from Device Manager, which can be opened from Control Panel>System>Hardware. Device Manager shows all devices on the system and offers information about their status, driver, and physical location.
If you follow the guidelines suggested here, you will have a good record of all of your settings, along with the data that you need to save. This will save you much time and aggravation when you need to perform a clean install. One of the most difficult and time-consuming aspects of reinstalling Windows involves reconfiguring your PC so that it will operate as it did before you did the reinstall (minus the problems, of course!). The settings and data that you compile before you start the reinstallation process will save you from having to perform a lot of detective work after the fact.
Part II: Print a Checklist
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