Need Help Reinstalling Windows XP

[Siddhartha]

My computer has gotten to be unstable and as a first step I plan to reinstall Windows XP. I going to put the install CD in the drive and click install. Is there a way I can do this without having to reinstall drivers and other appls?

Thanks

 

[Schadenfroh]

tell us in more detail whats wrong with your pc first and if you want to reinstall windows, you need to boot off the cd

 

[Siddhartha]

It freezes, and I am not able to move the mouse. The reboot after it crashes, it checks usually my C and E drives but indicates that there are no problems with them. My D drive has 160 kb of bad sectors on it and I have just ordered a new hard drive from Newegg to replace it. I have tested my RAM and it passed. I have run Norton Disk Doctor on all my hard drives and it has not detected any problems with them.

This has been going on for about a week or two.

I suspect that the instability may be caused by a recent Windows Update or some other software installation.

 

[YaKuZa]

You can load the Windows CD and try the repair option to see if that helps.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: YaKuZa
You can load the Windows CD and try the repair option to see if that helps.

How do I this? I just checked my installation disk and did not see a "repair option".

thanks

 

[theNEOone]

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: YaKuZa
You can load the Windows CD and try the repair option to see if that helps.

How do I this? I just checked my installation disk and did not see a "repair option".

thanks

you have to boot off of the winXP CD, not browse it within windows.....duh. how do you have 6000 posts and not know that? 😕

 

[YaKuZa]

Here's another suggestion. Since the problem only started about a week or 2 ago. If you have system restore turned on. Do a rollback to a time before your system updates. The rollback feature should have a restore point everytime you do a major system update or install. If it doesn't, then just try to remember the date when everything was fine. And rollback to it.

 

[BFG10K]

Have you tried checking for viruses? Have you run stress tests on your memory and CPU?

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Have you tried checking for viruses? Have you run stress tests on your memory and CPU?

I have run Norton Antivirus a couple of times since the instability hit. I stress tested my RAM but not the CPU.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: theNEOone

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: YaKuZa
You can load the Windows CD and try the repair option to see if that helps.

How do I this? I just checked my installation disk and did not see a "repair option".

thanks

you have to boot off of the winXP CD, not browse it within windows.....duh. how do you have 6000 posts and not know that? 😕

Thanks for your reply. I'm a advocate for getting rid of the post count. People seem to think it means something more than the number times a person posts on this forum.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: YaKuZa
Here's another suggestion. Since the problem only started about a week or 2 ago. If you have system restore turned on. Do a rollback to a time before your system updates. The rollback feature should have a restore point everytime you do a major system update or install. If it doesn't, then just try to remember the date when everything was fine. And rollback to it.

Thanks for your reply. I turned off Restore because it increased the boot time.