Originally Posted by
westcoaststyle
Why not just get like a 250GB USB external drive to copy everything over to so you can do the reinstall. Sounds like you could use the extra storage space as it is.
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I'd just get an external 3.5" (unless you are really crammed for space) and just move data to that and leave the one inside the laptop alone.
That way you can get a huge external drive and save all kinds of things and not have to worry about the internal and reinstalling XP and all that happy horse shit with activation and reinstalling drivers and software what a pain in the ass.
The next best thing would be something like GHOST software for making an image of the drive that you can then restore to another drive and it's almost just that easy. Have to resize the partition or make another one and hope windows makes it through.