Re: Uninstalling Win XP without formatting?

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"keith" <it@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 4 Dec, 16:15, "DL" <address@invalid> wrote:
If you allready have a seperate partition, or hd, move / copy all data to
that.
Boot from winxp cd and delete current C partition, create a new partition
and proceede with install of win, update and install your apps.
You can move My Documents to a different location (Properties of My
Documents>Move)



Second partition is to small, will have to see if I can borrow or
acquire a USB drive for backup.

thanks for the advice


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