++ [ originally posted by Martin
] ++
sounds like your laptop is ready for a reinstall
If you mean formatting, then no... not really... It's been formatted enough... It's perfectly set the way I want it, except for some unorganized (3 gigs

) files that i gathered in a single folder.
It's just that I want a new one because my time/technology has caught up and passed it.
- The HDD doesn't have much left on it (so i need to leave 15% empty to defrag).
- I need to buy HDD imaging Software to back it up. Thankfully, I don't have any glitches.
- I need to update to WinXp SP2 and I'm afraid some apps won't work, so that's another reason to back up.
- I don't have USB 2.0 or firewire and I really don't want to have to buy a $100 PCMCIA card adapter for it.
- I don't have a DVD-R or even a regular DVD. Some software now is destributed in DVDs not regular CDs.
- My CD-RW's speed is only 8X!! and the Read speed isn't much more than that.
- The video car is only 16mb.
It still hold up well though.. I'm really anal when it comes to my PC and it's preferences and I'm beotching about it because I know i'm too lazy to start setting everything up all over.
Example: I DLed Mozilla 1.5 more than a year ago and I'm just starting to customize firefox to start using it.