Formatting question

[asanthadenz]

got a question, im upgrading my Motherboard and wish to FORMAT the whole HDD, except on CERTAIN FILE, its a backup file of all my important stuff, how do i format the whole drive without deleting tht particular file...

[KingJackal]

You can't. You'll have to put it on another drive.

At least that's how I understand it....
:confused:

[Grrr!!]

AFAIK you can't. Burn the file to CD, put it on a different computer, different hard drive.

Or you could deltree ever folder, and del every file other than this one. (Which does not equate to a reformat).

[Solid Snake]

Originally posted by Grrr!!
AFAIK you can't. Burn the file to CD, put it on a different computer, different hard drive.

Or you could deltree ever folder, and del every file other than this one. (Which does not equate to a reformat).

That's uauly bad as you can't actually delete certain files still as they will still be used by Windows or DOS, since you booted from the HDD. If you booted from the floppy or CD, you might as reformat anyways... since it only needs a one line command :D

Burn to a cd, or partition your drive before formatting. THen you will permantly [well not really] space for backups. I have a small one of about 600 megs, that is usually more than enough, depending on what you do on your comp of course!

[Wibber]

depending on the size of the file you could use a ram drive

[I.R]

Is the drive partitioned??? Stick all you crap on D: or what ever you have then format C: from teh floppy drive :eek:

[Geek4Life]

In my opinion it can't be all that important if it's just backed up on your HDD.;)

How large is the file? You could upload it to a free host.