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| Originally Posted by MattS There is no usually about it. The install routine does what you tell it to do. You just need to to know what to tell it to do. A repair install overwrites only files that shipped with Windows or were created at install time and leaves the vast majority of applications intact. Accepting defaults and not knowing what the various options mean may well wipe the disk though. Sorry if I have not worded that particularly well. |
Sorry, but your comments are not accurate. Some machines only come with a 're-install disc' which totally wipes the C: partition (often the only one in these machines) and no options are possible. This is increasingly the case as it means the manufacturer has a process of getting your O/S back to a known state. Sadly, all your data are sacrificed to the Gods of 'cheap support'. If warmwaterdiver has one like this, then there is no 'you just need to know...' etc. If he has a seperate O/S install disc, then you are right, but this is not very likely.
The best bet is to connect the disc externally, and I too can connect directly to any SATA or IDE device, but that doesn't help as I'm not local enough and the USB adaptors work very well a lot of the time.
Cheers, Chris