Matt Jarvis wrote: > Does reinstall of Win2k (or XP) overwrite installed programs? > > I have a user w/ a flakey machine and wanted to try reinstalling Windows > on her machine. I can't remember if she runs Win2k or XP. > > Any special dirs I need to protect? > > When I've done this before (with XP), if you try to do it as a new install, when you come to the option of where to put the OS (pick a partition). It should then prompt you saying that windows already exists on this machine and give you an option to do a repair, which should just overwrite the system files and keep user folders etc. Mind you, I'd always backup first :-)
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