REINSTALLING WINDOWS XP

[Guest]

I wish to reinstall Windows XP on my Laptop.

Can anyone plesae advise me whether I can avoid losing all my files if I do
this?

Many thanks

 

[AJR]

"gunga" - why reinstall XP - problems?

 

[Guest]

Hi AJR

I have had a STOP Error message & cannot cure it so thought I would reinstall.

 

[lvee]

First make sure your bios is set to boot from cd, then with the disk in your
drive restart your computer and follow the prompts for a repair install.
Here is a link to some instructions for the repair install..print them out
if you like..the link is from The Elder Geeks web site. Scroll down to
Windows Installation CD - Repair Current Installation
http://www.theeldergeek.com/repairing_windows_xp.htm

This will keep all you personal documents, etc in tact, but be advised that
it does bring your computer back to a 'like new' state, meaning you will
have to reinstall your programs that are not on the disk ( oem) and all your
Windows updates, including SP2..that's why it's nice to A: have a SP2 disk,
and B: have a slipstreamed disk that contains your os and is current with
your updates..but I digress.
Now, as far as the STOP message..maybe it can be resolved here. what is the
exact Stop error? Example,
Stop 0x00000077" or "KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I wish to reinstall Windows XP on my Laptop.

Can anyone plesae advise me whether I can avoid losing all my files if I do
this?

Many thanks

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Of course, if you have any data that's important to you, back it up to
an external disk before starting.


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[Guest]

Hi, thanks for this. The exact STOP message is:

STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}
The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly
with a status of 0xc000026c (0x00000000 0x00000000).
The system has been shut down.

Many thanks

 

[lvee]

Take a look at this article. Note that if this is the cause of your error,
you will not be able to do the In place Upgrade.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316751