If I reinstall WinXP, will My Documents folder be overwritten?

[nitsuj3580]

I had a freak accident or something when I lost power earlier this week. When I rebooted Windows XP, all I get is a blue screen that says something that it can't check url.dll or something.

So i was just gonna reinstall windows , burn everything, then reformat.

Question is...will my current My Documents folder keep all the files i have now in it? or will it be reinstalled along with Windows?

 

[nitsuj3580]

come on people...anyone please????

 

[Slogunz]

i dunno, back it up, try, then come back and tell us

 

[Passions]

No, reinstalling does not delete files. They will be there.

One possiblity is that it might be in a different folder in "Documents and Settings" if you choose to be a different user. But, yeah, the files will stay on HD.

 

[Cremaster]

<< So i was just gonna reinstall windows , burn everything, then reformat. >>


If you reformat everything will be gone, no?

 

[neddog]

If you reformat you will loose everything for sure.. I believe you can boot to the CD and select upgrade (might be repair).. and it will then NOT overwrite your settings and Documents. I did a screw up last night and lost my sound card, only way to get it back was to re-install, I booted the XP cd from within windows and selected upgrade.. it only repaired the problem file.... All is well

NeDDoG