Restoring my PC

[Ian Price]

Afternoon all. I am planning to restore my PC over the weekend i.e. return it to factory settings. Basically I have loads of programmes on it that I no longer use (or intend to use in future) that are taking up too much room and the remove programme wizard doesn't work for all.

Can anyone suggest if there is any easy way around not deleting all my iTunes library? Is it as simple as transferring it to my personal media drive and then moving them back when iTunes is reinstalled? Not sure about this as I have never done this before.

Cheers,

Ian.

[ToneMonkey]

In my experience of computers, it's never that easy  :D

Can't really help, but my sister-in-law was doing something similar a while back and it caused no end of issues.

[_tom_]

If you store all the music on your ipod then you can just get something called PodUtil which will allow you to get all the music back off and onto your computer after formatting/reinstalling windows.

If its not an ipod then I guess you can just use it as a regular external hard drive/storage space?

Another thing to make sure of is that you download all the up to date drivers for your computer system and burn them to either a data cd, or put them on a usb stick, so you can install anything essential.

[Will]

Put everything on HDD and when pc is restored, go to iTunes:
>File
>Add folder to library
{HDD itunes folder}

[ailean]

What Will said should work.

I have just backed it up and then copied over a nerw install before and it's works, but that was with version 6 or 7, might not work on 8.

Make sure you get the latest version of itunes BEFORE you back up, or you might be trying to restore an old library structure over a new one. (iTunes sometimes makes changes to the way it stores files).