reinstalling Windows XP over old

[Maggie]

Help! A family member started to reinstall Windows XP
Home. What to do?

[David Candy]

Finish the installation.

What's your point here?

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[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Maggie;
If you have not gone to far, you can perform a Repair installation as
a Clean Installation can destroy all data.
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/repaxp.htm

It is generally not a good idea to stop the installation but if a
Clean Installation was started, you may try stopping to minimize lost
data and perform a Repair installation.

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


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[Maggie]

Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers:117302

If it's going over top of Windows, the programs and the
data, what will happen? Maggie


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[David Candy]

Nothing bad if it's a repair install (eg upgrading itself with itself). =
If it's wiping the disk it will wipe the disk. MS versions of XP will be =
a repair install unless you chose otherwise. A non MS version can do =
anything and often will wipe the data.

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