Windows OS thread

[acolyte_to_jippity]

wouldnt that reburn 32bit windows? Its making an image of the whole drive, I have done that before when I was building my dads i7 and the HDD in his old computer could not be read by windows for some reason (I blame Windows ME beacuse thats what had formated the drives) and thats what It did, copied the whole drive OS and all. My situation was different because new mobo ment I didnt have to worry about that, he is using the same mobo though.

ok, well i'm assuming you were smart and have at least 2 partitions on your hard drive?
c:, and at least a data partition. useing everything on c: means you get fucked over in a situation like this, because all your programs and data will be hidden among the system settings. ideally, at least 3 partitions make things easier.

c: for system files, don't use this any more than you must
d: for installed programs (games, etc...)
e: for data

then you can just image the d: and e: drives, and you're good!