Repair or re-install?

[Kenny]

Just bought new m/b, CPU and RAM. If I run the "Repair" from XP CD then
install the new chipset drivers etc. what happens to all the old drivers
etc.? Are they still on the PC but inactive?
Does the "Repair" usually work OK, am I likely to run into any problems?
I am trying to avoid a full re-install of XP and programs.

 

[Malke]

Just bought new m/b, CPU and RAM. If I run the "Repair" from XP CD
then install the new chipset drivers etc. what happens to all the old
drivers
etc.? Are they still on the PC but inactive?
Does the "Repair" usually work OK, am I likely to run into any
problems? I am trying to avoid a full re-install of XP and programs.

Usually the repair install works fine. Of course, you should always back
up important data first anyway. If the repair install doesn't work for
any reason, you can always do a clean install then. I've done many
repair installs without any problems.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html - for changing
motherboard

Malke

 

[Jerry]

The 'repair' option is successful just about all the time.

The old drivers are still around somewhere.

 

[Kenny]

Thanks for the replies.

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Kenny Cargill

The 'repair' option is successful just about all the time.

The old drivers are still around somewhere.

 

[Gene K]

The replaced drivers are retained. IF the new driver causes problems, you
can rollback to the ld one using the Device Manager.
Gene

 

[Sparda]

Just bought new m/b, CPU and RAM. If I run the "Repair" from
XP CD then
install the new chipset drivers etc. what happens to all the
old drivers
etc.? Are they still on the PC but inactive?
Does the "Repair" usually work OK, am I likely to run into any
problems?
I am trying to avoid a full re-install of XP and programs.

I belive a repair instalation (by deafult) will delete the current
windows folder, so that windows can be reinstalled, so all system
drivers will be deleted.

 

[Kenny]

But the old drivers are for a different m/b.

 

[Mike Hollywood]

I've often wondered about what happens to your programs and data if you do a
repair install.
Do you loose them? If the original version of windows is
erased during the install, doesn't that sever the hooks to the programs and
the my docs folder?

Mike

 

[John]

Nope, I've done many repair installs and they've all left the data and
programs intact.

- John

 

[D.Currie]

I belive a repair instalation (by deafult) will delete the current
windows folder, so that windows can be reinstalled, so all system
drivers will be deleted.

You believe wrong. If that was the case, you'd also be deleting the
registry, in which case you'd have to reinstall all the programs to get them
to work. The point of doing a repair install is to replace missing or
corrupted system files, and at the same time it looks for new hardware.

You can certainly manually delete the Windows folder, but it wouldn't make a
whole lot of sense to do that.

 

[D.Currie]

A "repair install" has been possible for every version of Windows, but now
it's an obvious option. As with Win 9x, etc,. it doesn't erase anything, it
just replaces system files. Which is why it's fine if you've got a corrupted
or missing system file, but does little or nothing for virus infestations or
problems with 3rd party applications.