IT Help needed!

[Sniperben]

If you reinstall xp and the installation, you choose to FORMAT your PARTITION, then your data is gone for good.

 

If you proceed with the installation while preserving teh data partition, then you are very safe.

 

But as an IT guy, I always recommend backup first. Backup your data before doing that. You never know what will happen.

 

As for vista, you can only reinstall it after formatting. There are tools on the web to allow you to reinstall without formatting same as the XP. Try google for it. Theres detail explanation on how to do it. Windows 7, did not try yet. still new to me on the OS recovery. Might want to google around first.

 

alright thanks.

 

i always have separate hard disk to keep my data. asking just in case my friends around me need to reinstall the window.

[Pentrain]

ok noted bro, i will try to reinstall without formatting.

 

mine is XP, will search more online for the above