as i'm working on this, its getting ever more time consuming and fraught with danger... one wrong move could be a disaster. i realize now its designed like this on purpose. all thats needed is a...

hi thanks for this reply, could you expand more on how to do this.... i'm on a laptop so adding another drive is not possible. i know how to partition drive.... will this work?

my issue with...

well i have it here in front of me..... weee! :D

i agree about the bloatware... i normally just use youruninstaller to take it back to empty... although i'm tempted to put win7 x64 on it and...

Eddit to add: also i guess you are going to lose any data you create after making the disc image? how often would you reccomend to make an image?

yes i will do it but that is too technical/expensive for others... say newbies and the elderly. it just bugs me that we have to use an os that most probably will lose something important one day...

ahh ok. thanks for that. thats great info i will do it.

it occurred to me after i posted that if i got my wish and the programmes didn't effect the os. and it could be reset/reinstalled at...

i'm just about to buy a new laptop and this problem has happened to me a lot of times over the years using computers. i know about backing up and suchlike. but is there some way to have the os on...