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if I can't get into windows on my laptop because of some dll thing "possibly" being corrupt, and the best thing for me to do would be to reinstall windows, does that mean that everything gets formatted on the windows drive? or can you reinstall an os without getting rid of everything on your drive? |
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normally not as far as I know, but I heard it many times b4 that ppl lost all their stuff, so I recommend you to backup everything you want to keep |
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yes, it is. |
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yeah, theres really not much you can do about it.. the dll files are generated for each installation so you cant get em from other computers and, new installations format (delete) your harddrive too bad |
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this is the second computer this has happened to within the course of about 2 weeks. I am going to kill someone! :D |
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you have to get a new computer because it's completely broken |
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you could've if you had made several partitions, saving one partition for windows and other programs, and keeping all your files on another partition. then, later on, you can reinstall windows to the windows-partition and if everything works normally, the other partition will stay unharmed. |
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Best not to rely on Windows to respect partitions on a reinstall. Best to have seperate physical disks for data and software/os. |
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you should get a computerr, you'd be good on one. |
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worked fine for me before. |
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do you think? maybe I can make one out of some empty milk-cartons and LOTS of stickyback plastic. |
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if you are going to do a clean install remember to delete the partition then re-create it just in case you have a boot sector virus |
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what if you just work here? |
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like this one herre, i made earrlierr. |
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if you just work here, then please disregard my last 14000 messages |
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it is possible to re install windows without formating.. depends on what kind windows installation disc you have. try runnind the instalation and it may ask you if you want a clean install or just a re-install |
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how do you back your shit up from DOS onto a cd? (I have0 floppy A: drives between the two computers |
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you are such a fucking dumbass. dumbass with a capital D. |
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eh.. certain windows-installations won't format your hd.. you can chose "repair," and it just re-installs windows.. however, your system register will be fucked, so you can't run any programs that were already installed.. you have to re-install them... |
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theo: You can reinstall without reformatting. It should give you the option. You will need to reinstall any programs, like MS Office etc. But your data will be ok. (But then you did a backup anyway, right? ;-) |
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no no no you are fucked theres no way back yer doomed |
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yeah I'm like.. a TOTAL retard.. cause this kind of thing is like common knowledge - instinct even - to most people |
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everyone that responded with the news that I can reinstall windows without formatting, I'd just like to say that I think you're all gorgeous |
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yeah, but it's not 100% It depends on which windows-release you have... i'd suggest backup first anyway, and then you could try... |
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well how can I backup if I can't even get into windows?? |
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ehm... eh.. xcopy? maybe... I don't know... you should just try.. if it doesn't work it doesn't work and then there's nothing you can do about it... |
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dosent xp have a repair option before it formats the hard drive?! And I'm sure there's an option to reinstall windowns without formatting, just an over the top job like, but don't know if that'll work I'm not even sure if I'm right or not =o\ |
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yes it does have such an option when you stick in the cd. |
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