What happens when one tries to reinstall Winxp over the already installed system?

When I used any of the other systems, 3.10, 3.11, 95 A & B,
98 A & B, there were no problems at all. May I ask, will Winxp baulk at the very idea of a reinstall please?

regards

grimerz

It depends, If you have installed SP2 and your CD doesn't include SP2 on the installation disk you will get an error message saying that a newer version of XP is already installed. If this is the case then you would have to uninstall all SP2 updates to do a repair install.

Just to add: if you intend a Clean Install you will get to the step where you will Delete your existing partition. All data will be erased and XP will be installed Clean.

Thank you Bear and jephree.

I imagine jephree that if I elect to continue with the install then all my files etc. will not be erased??

regards

grimerz

A Clean Install will ERASE all DATA. It Formats the hard drive (or partition).

A Repair Install will not erase data. This is what Bear was referring to.

Thank you jephree for your trouble. I am delighted that you are here to help we nitwits


regards grimerz //

No problem. Let us know if we can help further.