Quote - I split my runtime into groups and zipped each group into seperate RAR files then burned them to a DVD that way all I had to do was double click on a couple of files and the runtime with everything in it was installed.. peice of cake.

I tried that. I spent hours zipping my files and burning them to CD's. I figured it was going to be the easiest reformat I've done. Turns out it was the worse! Every single one of my CD's had errors when trying to unzip the files. I posted here asking about it. I had used CDRWs and I was getting error after error about inflating data. I had to install all of my runtimes from scratch that time too. In October when I reformatted and my drive bugged out on me, I once again depended on CDs to save what files I could. Again I ended up with corrupt CD saves and lost many of my files. Needless to say I no longer trust my runtimes to CDs.

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