reinstall xp on a partition?

[haggisinlondon]

Hi

I have my one hard drive partitioned into 3 drives, with windows on C, programs on D and media files on E. My computer has been in need of a reinstall of xp for a while now as its got messy with shareware programs installed etc, but I have got a lot of my music and work files on the E drive.

My question is, can I format drive C and D and leave E intact, then reinstall windows on the C drive, and reinstall my applications on the D drive?

Will my E drive stay intact?

Thanks
Haggis

[AzCoastie]

Yes!

Because you have 3 logical drives, XP will recognize this during the setup process. Just boot from the XP disk and pick the partition you want to install to (C:\).

Once XP has completed its setup process, you can format D:\ from within XP... You can do this before you re-install XP if you'd like. Go to "My Computer" and right-click on the D:\ drive... "Format" will be an option on the menu.

Do you have a CDRW? If so, you should make a backup of everything you'd like to keep from E:\, just in case. XP won't touch the files on your E:\ drive unless you tell it to, however, it's always a good idea to have a backup burned to CD. You never know when the entire HDD could fail.

HTH

[bailey]

Originally posted by haggisinlondon Hi I have my one hard drive partitioned into 3 drives, with windows on C, programs on D and media files on E. My computer has been in need of a reinstall of xp for a while now as its got messy with shareware programs installed etc, but I have got a lot of my music and work files on the E drive. My question is, can I format drive C and D and leave E intact, then reinstall windows on the C drive, and reinstall my applications on the D drive? Will my E drive stay intact? Thanks Haggis

I can't think of any reason why anyone would need to reinstall xp. when yiu can use a restore point and go back to where it was installed the first time and any date from there to now.

[not important]

I've had to reinstall XP several times. More than likely to due my own ignorance. The Restore feature has never been very reliable to me. I use Ghost and I keep everthing backed up to CD's.