I have purchased (at MIT Swap Meet :) WXP Pro
CD and plan to install over WXP Home (which
has crashed 'unable to recover hive' or some
such thing) on wifie's Acer.   If I install
from CD on C:, will I lose wifie's data, or
will that remain?

Also, is there a way I can boot from the
WXP CD before the install, so as to xcopy
all her data files over to a thumb drive,
before the install?  (Just in case some
thing goes wrong.)  Or can I boot from a
W2K disk?  (Will that read NTFS?)

Although I don't enjoy this, I welcome the
practice because one day one of my TPs will
crash too

Tks for all help
Jeffrey Race

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