reinstall XP

-----Original Message-----
due to injudicious downloads and careless mucking about
with my computer it
now runs slowly and is becoming erratic with various
links being lost (My
Pictures/My Computer/My Music etc). i have come to the
conclusion that the
only way out of this predicament is to wipe everything
and reinstall XP. is
there any way i can transfer all my files and stuff
somewhere on the hard
disk and mark it some way that it won't be affected by a
reinstall or have i
got to put all my stuff on to CDs. Any help would be
gratefully accepted

paul
I had a simular problem and my restore wouldn't work ,
so I used another hard drive and stored all my business
records , pics , music ect... an that one . Then
formatted my hard drive and rien stalled XP and then
transfered the stuff back . Seemed much easier than cd's

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