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?
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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?
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That depends on whether or not you do a format of the drive first.
If you reformat, then yes, you lose everything.
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Thanks for the reply clocker.
Well no I'm not formating the HD. So then my files are safe?
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It's better to backup your stuff to be safe.
Why do you want to do a reinstall?
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.
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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.
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In otherwords, you're getting one of those incomprehensible, gibberish MS error messages and you hope a reinstall will solve the problem?
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Dos.exe errorOriginally 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.
Do a search on google also. As it says on there it has to do with NTVDM.
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Yeah. One of the solutions that the microsoft.com site suggest was to reinstall if I remember correctly.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?
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Of course.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.
That is the all-purpose "fix-everything" solution to every problem, isn't it?
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