Eve… I break my head a bit
I would like to put on a new laptop which does not drive really high but still has important data on the hard disk, my idea was to create a completely new Partiotion during the reinstall without formatting one of the other so that I can still save them after reinstalling windows. It would be nice if someone who knows himself could say if this idea is feasible or imbecilic… MfG
Make a boot CD or boot stick with Linux, start the lappi from it and save your data
Then restart Windows as normal…
First, you should create a Live Linux USB Bootstick. I recommend Lubuntu. Here is the download of the ISO: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/...p-i386.iso Then flick the ISO with this tool https://unetbootin.github.io/ on an empty formatted USB stick.
Then boot the stick. Select Lubuntu without installation. After a while the desktop appears. Now connect an external hard drive. You can now access the Windows hard drive and copy the important data to the external hard drive by dragging and dropping.
When done, unplug the external hard drive. Then go to the start menu> Accessories> Drives. Now select the Windows hard drive on the left and then click on the symbol with the 3 dashes. Then select Format drive.
Now go to Start menu> Log out> Restart. Insert the Windows CD / DVD and boot it. Now you can cleanly reinstall Windows. Finally, install the drivers and they have a clean newly installed system. From the external hard disk, you can copy back your saved data via drag & drop.
P.S. In 2020, the support of Windows 7 will be completely discontinued. I would then install Lubuntu. So you can continue to use the laptop useful.
That's how I did it. Use a disk manager to set up an additional partition, shrinking the existing one accordingly. For this, there must be sufficient free space on the existing one. You can now format the new one and disable the old one for safety's sake (make it invisible). This prevents accidentally setting up the new Windows on the old partition. If the new Windows is running properly, install Disk Administrator (or boot from the DVD) and re-enable the old partition, which will then automatically get a different drive letter. Very helpful: You have parallel to the structure of the new Windows always the old achievable and can gradually over its data without stress over and eventually reformat the old partition. Simply delete does not work normally because the old system files can't be deleted. Windows can't recognize that it is a dead system.
If the existing Windows still runs so badly and right, you can also take a chip (6 to 10 euro for 30GB) and copy the required data. One should not forget important ones. Because afterwards everything is gone. In that sense, the first solution is safer. There you can still find the bookmarks in the old browser, if you have not thought of them.
