Came home from uni today and just set up my PC to find it's gone completely mad, object dock, as well as a few other programs, have reset to thier original settings for some reason...ah yeah may have something to do with a freeze I had when playing BF2, had to turn it off as it was completely frozen, and didn't bother checking if it was ok cos I had to pack it up.
But anyways, I just noticed I am running low on storage space anyway, I was planning on getting a raptor for windows and progs, and a big 500GB drive to keep all my data on (I would keep the current drive as a backup for important stuff). Probelm is, the raptor is very expensive so that's out of the question for now.
I now want to buy a big HDD and then reformat my current 250GB and make that my system drive and have the big one as a data drive as originally planned.
A couple of questions, firstly, can you reccomend me a good quality big HDD, I've heard deskstars are very good.
Second, I've heard you can copy over a few files to your reinstall of windows so you don't have to faff around with silly MS activation crap but only if the hardware is exactly the same. If I put the deskstar in and copy my data across then reformat the system drive (turning it from a 2 partion drive to 1), would this stop me being able to use this work around for XP activation?
Thanks for any help.
EDIT: Was thinking of buying this one http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=228981