Reinstalling XP

[nickmuzz]

After a recent major upgrade I want to reinstall XP to make everything work properly.

Is it simply a case of bunging in the cd and reinstalling or are there many and dangerous pitfalls to all this?!

(i especially dont want to lose all my data!!)

Cheers

 

[arsbanned]

You might want to describe your upgrades. Anything other than a mobo upgrade would probably not require a re-install. Even then a Repair install would most likely do the trick, unless you have moved to a different chipset.
Anyway, more info from you is probably in order.

 

[nickmuzz]

Yup, more info would have been better!

Its a motherboard upgrade to a different chipset so at moment cant even get in to XP in safe mode.

 

[Sianath]

315341 How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315341