winxp help

[Ken Moffat]

Wil McGilvery wrote:

>Why reinstall? When you run the installation cd you should be prompted to upgrade or repair the existing installation. This way no data will be lost, but you will need to reinstall the security updates.
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>Unless the user has deliberately specified another directory, all mail, favourites and documents can be found in the documents and settings directory. 
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>Regards,
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>Wil McGilvery
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Ken Moffat
>Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 7:06 AM
>To: Linux Users list
>Subject: winxp help
>
>Not a linux question, but surely there is WindowsXP crash experience here.
>
>My wife's WinXP box fails to boot in to winxp using grub. Some 
>partitioning snafu. Can someone tell me what I need to backup before 
>reinstalling in order to restore bookmarks and such? I see a "Documents 
>and settings" folder that might do the trick. Anything else of great 
>importance?
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>Thanks...
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>

Thanks, Raymond and Will.
All I have are "restore" cd's, which I'm thinking will do one thing; 
restore to original state. I could be incorrect, of course. (This is my 
wife's eMachines with XP Home.)

-- 
Ken