Re: Reinstallation of XP versus repair



A repair install is a reinstallation but all of your stuff is basically
intact.

"Kevin" <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BD163355-F3DB-4E8C-B08C-206061DE929B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I recently had a 'NTLDR is missing' issue on my computer. After a series on
nonworking fixes, I'm wondering if I can reinstall XP on the hard drive...
Thing is, I have lot of items in documents and setting folders.

Will those files be overwritten/deleted/moved if a reinstallation is done
with the setup disk.

Would repair delete the files as well?


.



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