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>
> Hi Kelly,
>
> I'm not sure how you plan to do the 'clean install without
> bloatware', but as to the driver problem, I use the freeware
> program DriverMax to backup ALL of my drivers and when I do a clean
> install from my retail XP disk I just install DriverMax and then
> restore the drivers.
>
> Ciao . . . C.Joseph
>
> "When hope is lost . . . the spirit dies."
> -- Lao Tzu
>
> http://blog.tlerma.com/

Hi,

I plan to do the semi restore like this:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=44587

what about my partition question, any idea if that is possible?