If I format my C Drive is there a way to save certain files?

Question

I want to format my C drive so it can be faster but i have some music files that I want to save how could i do that? Its alot of them so I can't possibly save them to a disk or anything like that. Is it a way to save them? If you reply but do not answer the question... I will report you. Thank u

How can I partition a section?

Answer 1

copy the songs you want to save to a flash drive or external hard drive. then format the drive. finally copy or move the song to the blank hard drive on the computer.

Answer 2

First of all reformatting your harddrve will not make it faster, somebody has mislead you with this information.

To speed a HD up, you either need to eliminate some of the files on it, making it less full, or defrag the HD.

If you need to know what a defrag is send me an email and i'll explain it for you.

But if you set on formatting the HD this is what I would do.

1. if you have a cd writer download http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
and burn the files you want to save to a cdrom.

if you don't have this option maybe you can FTP the files to a place on the internet (for example I have a website that I use for this every now and then).
if you are to use the ftp option I would use WinZip to compress the files to give you more space at an online storage place.

2. commit the format.

Note:
I feel I have to post this for those that don't have a good understanding of harddrives.
Formatting the HD doesn't erase the information on the HD, it resets the markers to allow for writing to the disk.

for example if you save a word doc to a disk and it takes up the first three sectors, the disk has marked those three sectors has having something there and not to write to the sectors.

When you delete this file those sectors are remarked to show nothing is there are that way you can save there again.

This is why you can recover lost data on HDs. So reformatting a HD will not make it faster it will just do the same job as a defrag, but you will have to put all of the files back on the drive.

good luck
ron

Answer 3

Here are a few suggestions:

1. If your PC is equipped with a CD or DVD burner, use it to make a copy of your important information to a CD or DVD. A CD holds up to 700MB of data while a DVD holds up to 4.7GB.

2. If you don't have a burner, invest in an external USB drive or if you want to create an inexpensive external USB drive, buy the hard disk and enclosure separately. Hard drives are quite inexpensive nowadays. If you have no money to invest in this, find a friend who has one.

3. Attach another hard drive to your computer and configure it as a slave drive. Copy important information to this drive before formatting the C drive. Borrow one from a friend if you have to.

4. Use a USB flash drive. They're a bit on the expensive size but if you can afford one that is several gigabytes in size, it will get the job done.

5. If you have a friend who has a laptop with enough room to store your information, connect your friend's laptop to your computer either via a switch/hub or a crossover cable then copy your information.

6. If your C drive has free space to hold another copy of your important information, create a partition using the free space on your hard drive using Partition Magic or similar utility, copy or move your data onto this new partition before doing a reformat.

Good luck!

Answer 4

You will have to save any files you want to keep before you format.
You could do a back up of the drive using something like norton ghost.
You can save the files you want to keep to disk
If you have a large hard drive you could partition it using partition magic this will give you a sererate drive and then save all your private files to that drive this way you can format without loosing any of them

Answer 5

If you format your harddrive prior saving the file there is no way to recover that files (normally) however my sugesion is to buy usb drive and save it there where now usb drive can contain prety decent large file. other than that you can create partition before you format and save in partition then up load it from that partitions. Keep in mind though Formating your drive not necessarly make your drive faster! other wise it just revolving door if you don't manage your system well.:)

Answer 6

No, only if you partition that section that has the files you want saved.
Example if you had a PC and you wanted to install Linux or Windows Vista, you can use Microsoft tools to divide up a hard drive, put mp3 files on a DOS partition, etc...
Makes more sense to "repair" the installation to get fresh drivers, etc and not re-install the OS.

Answer 7

Reformatting your hard drive will not speed up your computer. Unless you have true problems (computer crashing, etc.) reformatting is a bad idea.
Rather than taking this drastic step, try this:
1. Unistall all the programs that you don't use.
2. Get WinPatrol (it's free). Use it to check your computer for programs you don't use or weren't even aware you had. Then uninstall them.
3. Clean up old/unused files and then defrag the hard drive, rather than reformatting it.

You'll see a performance boost without doing a reformat.

Answer 8

You should get an external hard drive to put all your files on. You could ask someone at a computer store, but make sure you are more polite to them than you are on here though, and they will probably be able to get you a good deal on one.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Backup those files with a cd-writer or dvd-writer then format.
if do not have a cd or dvd writer, just ask help from a friend to store your files then use a USB Flash drive and save those files to their computer then safely format, later on you can transfer your files back.