Wednesday, October 20, 2004

XP Reinstallation

If you have to reinstall XP, without wiping out your previous installation, you are going to find yourself able to see all your old programs, but unable to run them, unless you take regular backups of your registry and hopefully, then, Windows can successfully rebuild itself, you are faced with already installed applications, their settings and the loss of these and possibly your documents when you resinstall.

A moderately sensible file layout in Windows XP allows you to keep data away from programs directories. But that doesn't really help you much.

You are probably going to have to do a clean install and copy your files back, one disk drive to another.


posted by Unknown @ 7:06 AM