Parallels

[Chad Leigh]

On Mar 1, 2007, at 1:49 PM, David Herren wrote:

> Because I like to know I've gotten well rid of all the crud... and  
> since it's a separate partition from my data, I can format and  
> start with an entirely clean slate.

But doing a clean install without formatting also gives you an  
entirely clean slate as far as the system is concerned.  (And you can  
still retrieve those third party extensions you forgot to backup)

Chad

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> On Mar 1, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Chad Leigh wrote:
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>>> Which obviously gets killed when you format for a clean install...
>>
>> Why are you formatting to do a clean install?
>>
>> You can install cleanly without formatting -- it just moves the  
>> old system to a previous systems folder
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> /david
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> --
> david herren - shoreham, vt us na terra solsys orionarm
>
> Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.
> (like the current US presidency...)
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