re-installing windows deleting files??

[skywere]

hey there people i have a short question,

i have as my C drive a 1TB drive and a 2TB drive for storage, but now i want to re-install windows (7-64bit) and i want to know if the files that i will be copying from my C to my 2TB disk are safe when re-installing.

 

[Guest]

As far as I know they're perfectly safe, you select the drive to format/install on during the installation process.

Unplug the SATA cable from the board temporarily if you want peace of mind.

 

[skywere]

As far as I know they're perfectly safe, you select the drive to format/install on during the installation process.

Unplug the SATA cable from the board temporarily if you want peace of mind.

thanks, that comforts me a little, but if i take the SATA cable out and plug it back in when i re-installed windows, how do i get that disk to work again without deleting the files?
(when i installed it i heard that you have to format it)

 

[rgd1101]

just make sure the folder/data is not encrypted.

 

[Guest]

As far as I know they're perfectly safe, you select the drive to format/install on during the installation process.

Unplug the SATA cable from the board temporarily if you want peace of mind.

thanks, that comforts me a little, but if i take the SATA cable out and plug it back in when i re-installed windows, how do i get that disk to work again without deleting the files?
(when i installed it i heard that you have to format it)

If it's just a storage drive there won't be any need to format it, unless you want to.
It will basically pop back up in Computer as if you were plugging in a memory stick or something.

If you have any programs installed on the drive however, they will cease to function on the reinstalled Windows.


You don't really need to unplug the extra drive, just make absolutely certain you select the right one to format/install onto during the Windows installation screen. It's one of the first screens I seem to recall.

 

[skywere]

As far as I know they're perfectly safe, you select the drive to format/install on during the installation process.

Unplug the SATA cable from the board temporarily if you want peace of mind.

thanks, that comforts me a little, but if i take the SATA cable out and plug it back in when i re-installed windows, how do i get that disk to work again without deleting the files?
(when i installed it i heard that you have to format it)

If it's just a storage drive there won't be any need to format it, unless you want to.
It will basically pop back up in Computer as if you were plugging in a memory stick or something.

If you have any programs installed on the drive however, they will cease to function on the reinstalled Windows.


You don't really need to unplug the extra drive, just make absolutely certain you select the right one to format/install onto during the Windows installation screen. It's one of the first screens I seem to recall.

thanks! it helped me a bunch, i'm going to put everything i want to keep on the 2TB disk and start re-installing