Difference btn clean install and repair?

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Hi, what are the difference(s) between a new install of Win XP and a Repair
installation? I did a repair installation and it looks like it is
re-installing the whole os to me, took just as long. Only it did not ask me
for user names and retains their desktops.

Thanks.

-hung kh
 
| Hi, what are the difference(s) between a new install of Win XP and a
Repair
| installation? I did a repair installation and it looks like it is
| re-installing the whole os to me, took just as long. Only it did not ask
me
| for user names and retains their desktops.
|
| Thanks.
|
| -hung kh
|
|

A clean install formats the drive erasing everything thus leaving it "clean"
for a fresh install.

A repair install installs a new copy of XP overtop of the existing
installation theoretically leaving current user files and settings intact.

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