On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:01:16 -0400, PCR, wrote:
After the fresh install & perhaps prettying up a few settings,
do a full system backup. This will protect you from most possible
mishaps, including certain critical updates may not take well in
your machine.

I used an old copy of Partition Magic to make a hidden copy of the C:
partition. If something goes drastically wrong, I'll be able to blow
away the C:, and replace it with the clean one. Only problem is that I
only have room for 2 C: backups on the 98SE machine, and it doesn't have
a CD-burner.

Thanks for the backup-solutions in your second post. But once I get
back on broadband, I'll download and burn a Knoppix CD. I'll then be
able to boot the Knoppix-linux CD on the 98SE machine, and copy over the
raw partition image to the linux machine as a file. I'll be able to take
snapshots of all the partitions and burn them to CD on my linux machine,
as long as I keep each one below 700 megs.

When you do connect to the WEB, you will not get a virus from just
"START button, Windows Update".

In that case, I may as well do the update online once I get
broadband. The router is set to block anything inbound to ports
0..1023, so stuff aimed at ports 135, 137-139, 445, etc will be kept
out.

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