The object of the excorcise (pardon the pun) was to reinstall the os in the hope of fixing a heap of bugs that made the rig almost unusable (that actually and eventually worked btw).
He asked me whether their was anything I wanted to keep, as doing so would wipe everything. He asked 'which folders' I wanted!
I meean, come on, it's Windows! There's **** stored all over the bloody place!
I was a bit blown away by that as the machine is (of course) chockers with stuff I need. So when I told him I needed everything he suggested the two drive 'solution'.
So, any way, I'm hering ya's, thanks for the reply, but it doesn't help me much. I mean, I've got $400 worth of Microsoft office on my machine but I can't open a word document or spreadsheet or any other bloody document that's not good for wordpad
(don't have access to the disk for the time being).