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Poster
i would like to completly reinstall my comp
but keep certain things like the films i have downloaded or the music i have on my comp
but delete everything else
is this possible?
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05-26-2003, 03:44 PM
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Poster
yes and no, if i was you i would just burn all your stuff to cds, then format your whole hard drive and re-install windows
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05-26-2003, 04:20 PM
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Poster
If you have 2 hard drives or if you have 2 partitions on one drive you can leave your data on that space. Reformat just the C: partition when reinstalling.
You may want to consider making it that way if you are starting over.
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05-26-2003, 04:33 PM
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Poster
only got one single harddrive
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05-26-2003, 04:35 PM
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scribblec how Somebody1234 explained is the best and safest way
if u only hav one harddrive if anything goes wrong with windows
it don't touch ur personal data..how i hav mine
40gb drive splitt
c:14 gb for windows and apps
d:23gb for storin data,movies music.etc, before i burn to disk
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05-26-2003, 04:36 PM
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n00b
you could use partition magic to create the partitions. It worked for me the other day. Also cosider making a clone or an image of your os and apps to make your restore easier.
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05-26-2003, 05:14 PM
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Poster
i have a complete restore cd
my os is xp home
which came with comp
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05-27-2003, 09:55 PM
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Poster
check the cd and see if it offers you reinstall windows and keep data. should do xp pro does
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05-27-2003, 11:31 PM
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Poster
i dont wanna keep data
i wanna keep certain data
like my music files and video ones
i wanna get rid of sp1
and all other stuff like that
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05-28-2003, 03:49 AM
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Old Guy
I don't know a lot about XP (I still use 98), but why couldn't he just...
1. Start with a boot disk
2. From the command prompt, rename the Windows directory to something like 'Win_Old'
3. Restart with the XP install disk in the drive and do a full install
Wouldn't this be a clean installation with a fresh new registry? That would allow him to keep all the other files and folders on his drive. He would just need to reinstall all his games and apps.
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