Reinstalling XP - will it affect my other drives?

[timf05454]

Hi O wise gurus,

I need to reinstall XP clean and new on my home machine for a variety
of reasons. I have a couple hundred gig of files I don't want to lose.

I have the primary drive (C) which is a SATA. I also have two secondary
drives, with one being another SATA and the other an IDE drive.

If I move all my data from the Primary (C) drive onto the two
secondaries (F & G), will it be safe there thru the
reformat/repartition of my XP reinstallation?

Thanks in Advance !!

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi O wise gurus,

I need to reinstall XP clean and new on my home machine for a variety
of reasons. I have a couple hundred gig of files I don't want to lose.

I have the primary drive (C) which is a SATA. I also have two secondary
drives, with one being another SATA and the other an IDE drive.

If I move all my data from the Primary (C) drive onto the two
secondaries (F & G), will it be safe there thru the
reformat/repartition of my XP reinstallation?

Thanks in Advance !!

It should be safe, yes.

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Bruce Chambers

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[CatScan29]

Provided you dont mess with the partitions on the other drives you should be
good to go. My strong recommendation would be to disconnect the other
drives during the install process just to make sure that nothing happens to
then after you copy your data.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

timf05454 wrote:

I need to reinstall XP clean and new on my home machine for a variety
of reasons. I have a couple hundred gig of files I don't want to lose.

I have the primary drive (C) which is a SATA. I also have two
secondary drives, with one being another SATA and the other an IDE
drive.

If I move all my data from the Primary (C) drive onto the two
secondaries (F & G), will it be safe there thru the
reformat/repartition of my XP reinstallation?

Yes. But there are no guarantees and it's always possible that something can
go wrong. The most likely possibility is user error.

The safest protection is always to external media: CDs/DVDs, external hard
drives, etc.