Reinstalling Xp

[Alpha_Caesar]

I plan on reinstalling XP pretty soon and I was wondering if I do so will stuff like my programs, mp3s, movies, etc. be deleted or lost?

[clocker]

That depends on whether or not you do a format of the drive first.
If you reformat, then yes, you lose everything.

[Alpha_Caesar]

Thanks for the reply clocker.

Well no I'm not formating the HD. So then my files are safe?

[Virtualbody1234]

It's better to backup your stuff to be safe.

Why do you want to do a reinstall?

[I.am]

When you do a reinstall basically all the windows system files are copied over. None of your stuff in my documents or programs or elsewhere will disappear.

[Alpha_Caesar]

I'm getting this error when trying to install/uninstall that says my DOSX.EXE is not in the path AUTOEXEC.NT or something along those lines.

[clocker]

In otherwords, you're getting one of those incomprehensible, gibberish MS error messages and you hope a reinstall will solve the problem?

[I.am]

Originally posted by Alpha_Caesar@3 December 2003 - 11:53
I'm getting this error when trying to install/uninstall that says my DOSX.EXE is not in the path AUTOEXEC.NT or something along those lines.
Dos.exe error (http://www.intuit.com/support/quicken/2002/win/572081.html)

Do a search on google also. As it says on there it has to do with NTVDM.

[Alpha_Caesar]

Originally posted by clocker@3 December 2003 - 11:56
In otherwords, you're getting one of those incomprehensible, gibberish MS error messages and you hope a reinstall will solve the problem?
Yeah. One of the solutions that the microsoft.com site suggest was to reinstall if I remember correctly.

[clocker]

Originally posted by Alpha_Caesar@3 December 2003 - 10:07

Yeah. One of the solutions that the microsoft.com site suggest was to reinstall if I remember correctly.
Of course.

That is the all-purpose "fix-everything" solution to every problem, isn't it?