Re: Uninstalling Win XP without formatting?

To respond to a few points:

Why am I reinstalling? Because I upgraded mobo & cpu a while back and
its been way too slow since, think I need a clean install to get the
drivers back right.

Why was I looking to put it in a seperate partittion? Was remembering
that people I knew used to have the OS in a seperate partition, so
that they could perform a clean install simply by formating that
partition, leaving data intact. Now I actually think about it tho,
that was back in the Win 98 days, and the people were fairly hardcore
gamers who felt the need to do a clean install every few months to
keep the system from slowing down. As neither really applies to me I
guess its not that necessary.

On the other hand I have more data on the drive than I have an easy
way to back up.
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