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Answer» I am getting a new computer shipped to me in about five days, and I have a few questions. The computer will be a Dell Dimension 4700 Series, Intel Pentium 4 Processor, 80 GB ATA hard drive, and 512 MB DDR2 at 400 MHz, with Windows XP. This is a birthday gift to me from a friend. My present computer is only 10GB hard drive (with only 3.83 GB remaining), and it has Windows Professional SP2, with IE6SP2. I will be giving my old one away to a family MEMBER, and I want to erase the hard drive, but not sure of the best way to do it (have not done it before) On A CD-R, I have saved My Documents, My Favorites, and Registry Editor. Do I need to save more items? Also, when I get the new one, will I be able to copy to my new hard drive what is on the CD-R? When the hard drive is erased, will that also erase everything in my Hot Mail and Yahoo Mail, or will everything be intact when I sign on from the new computer? I tried to find, on this site, about erasing the hard drive, but I did not find anything for Windows XP. I would get "Nothing Found". (Maybe I used the wrong words.) I have a CD with Windows XP Professional SP1.(Put on for me by a computer tech) Will I be able to change the Windows XP, on the new computer, to the Windows Professional XP SP1 and then download SP2 from Windows Update? Thank you Anna Ruth http:// (do not know what this is and wanted to see what it would do) Wanted to attach a Mickey Mouse hug, but did not see an Attachment button.Ann: Some older programs do not save the documents or other items you create to the My Documents folder. An example is an old version of PrintShop that i own. It saves all projects to it's own folder. So look for this. There is a program in Windows XP that you may run to transfer all your favorites, e-mail addresses, documents, etc. from your old computer to your new one. It's migwiz.exe (i.e. the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard). To use it you have to have the two computers connected via a direct CAT 5 cable and two network interface cards (NICs) or connected via a null modem cable. Once you connect the two and run the XP network connection setup wizard, all you have to do is run migwiz.exe and it makes the saving of your settings and files easy. If this is something you want to consider, let us know and one of us will explain how to go about it. If you do not want to wait and just want to erase the hard drive now, let us know that too. Regards, Doc Quote ...I want to erase the hard drive.... Erasing...so it won't work? Or erasing...to remove your personal stuff? Uh, oh! I am not sure which person I am answering so will answer both on here. I want to erase my personal stuff, Computer_Commando. pcdocforchrist, SOUNDS complicated re using Cat 5 cable and interface cards. I could just see myself hyperventilating. How about just erasing the hard drive, and I will back up what I think I should - Drive C? Mucho gracias, amigos (the only Spanish I know) At the top of the screen, it says: Hey, foxygrandma, you have 0 messages. May 5th, 2005, 12:09pm Shouldn't it show that I have two messages? Anna Ruth it would only say you have 2 messages if you recived private messages. It would be cool if it did show any replys up there but it isn't a function of this dear forum Quote ...I want to erase my personal stuff, Computer_Commando.... Everything you have already saved to the CD-R is what you want: My Documents, My Favorites. You don't need the Registry Editor, it a program that comes with all versions of Windows. Hot Mail and Yahoo Mail remain on their respective mail servers and can be accessed from any computer in the world. To clean your computer of other hidden junk download and run this: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4191.html foxygrandma.....Several things...... The new pc you will be receiving ........It has Win XP home loaded ......does it have Sp2 as well ? Will you be receiving the Win Xp ( authentic operating system disc with it ) ? .......... Has it had its hard drive erased and then the Win XP home reinstalled and all the Win updates installed .....( Sp1 and Sp2 as well as any critical updates ) ? Now then the old one ......If you have the original Win Xp Pro disk ( which you have ) . Wait until you get the new one .......then load your saved info onto the new one . once you have everything you want off the old one .......... I would be formatting the hard drive and then doing a clean install of Win Xp Pro .... You mentioned that you would like to install Win Xp pro on the new one ......( unless there's some feature of Xp pro that you must have , I would suggest leaving XP home as it is ) ........You are just creating a lot of additional work for yourself . Let us know what you decide . dl65 Boy, I am sure going to have to learn this site when I have time. Under each reply, I was looking for an answer button, but only see one under all the replies, so will just reply to all. Thanks so much everyone. Thanks, Kablam about the messages reply. Computer_Commando, I made a mistake. It is not Registry Editor, it is Registry Mechanic that was installed for me by a computer tech when he was fixing some problems with my current computer in January. Thank you for the Major Geeks link. Thanks, dl65. The new one will only have XP home. I assume I will be receiving the disk (but I know what "assume" did). Has it had its hard drive erased? It will be brand new. Does the hard drive need to be erased? Do not understand. What is the easiest way to format a hard drive? Or maybe I should not format it. Since I am not sure of what I am doing, I do not want to mess up the old one when I GIVE it to my daughter and son-in-law. I just want to erase any personal stuff on my old one - like what is in my Personals folder in My Documents, and other places on the computer. I want to give it to them so they will have much more hard drive space than what is on it now. There is just 3.75 GB left out of a 10 GB hard drive. Okay, on the new computer I will just leve XP home on it. Do not need any additional work for myself. I appreciate the feedack. Quote I am getting a new computer shipped to me in about five days, and I have a few questions. The computer will be a Dell Dimension 4700 Series, Intel Pentium 4 Processor, 80 GB ATA hard drive, and 512 MB DDR2 at 400 MHz, with Windows XP. This is a birthday gift to me from a friend. My present computer is only 10GB hard drive (with only 3.83 GB remaining), and it has Windows Professional SP2, with IE6SP2. I will be giving my old one away to a family member, and I want to erase the hard drive, but not sure of the best way to do it (have not done it before) On A CD-R, I have saved My Documents, My Favorites, and Registry Mechanic. Do I need to save more items? Well these are two different operating systems, Home and Professional. So it looks like you'll have to set up the new Home computer from scratch. You should save your Address book as well. As long as you have ALL the documents backed up you can copy them easily to the new computer from CDRs. I hope that you will partition the new computer's drive as it pays dividends to do so. The new computer will have a DELL OEM install using a DELLL OEM XP CD and will likely be XP HOME SP2, if it is brand new. On your OLD computer you should use AutoStreamer 1·0 to slipstream the old XP PRO SP1 CD together with SP2. This program will produce an .ISO file from which you can burn a new XP PRO SP2 CD. To erase the old hard drive is then a matter of booting to the new CD and going through the setup routine. Delete the old drive partiton C: and make a new one, then format it. You can then let them do the setting up. Your family member can always add a slave drive to increase the storage capacity. The DELL 4700 Series can use up to 4 x 1024Mb of RAM so if you found you needed more in the past you might consider adding some more at the outset. MEMORY Here are a few links which you light find to be useful. XP Clean Installing XP Partition Management XP Installing Recovery Console RAM Knowledge Base RAM And What it Does RAM Virtual Memory Paging RAM Reseating & Fitting PDF File Processor Temperatures Service Pack Slipstreamer Everest Home Edition Computer Diagnostic Program Partition the new computer - oh, boy, that will be a first, but I GUESS there always has to be a first. Thank you for the links. I can see what will be taking up my time (when I find the time). Thanks so much Anna Ruth Uh. oh, here I am again! Guess I am trying to find the wimpy way out to make it easier on me and my daughter when she gets this computer.. If I delete most of the software that is now on this computer (see Belarc below) and delete all the pictures I have in My Documents (there are hundreds), wouldn't that leave a bunch more space on the hard drive? I would want to leave the Windows Updates as they take so long to download and to install. My daughter can find her own virus software, and she and her husband would never use PowerPoint and so much of the other software. Please don't whip me with a wet noodle! I do not think that Dell will set up for free. They charge a bunch of $$$$. Think I will be able to do it with the help of a friend who will be visiting from Winter Park, FL in about a week. 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