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Uploaded by on Jun 30, 2008

How to do a warm reinstall of XP without loosing your documents, email, etc.

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  • what heppends if i get an error saying that a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent dmg to your computer check to be sure u have adequate disk space blah blah check with your hardware vendor for any bios updates diasble bios memory options such as caching or shadowing???????? what the hell is all that

  • @darthnater22 First, turn on your computer and see if you get "safe mode" option? If so, select it and start deleting unneeded stuff on your drive - it sounds like Windows has less than 20% of free space on your primary drive, and it often freaks out as a result. Just offloading a few movies and music files to a usb drive might do the trick! For good measure, throw in a defrag and you'll likely get rid of this problem.

  • Jeffa101 - Follow the same steps in the video, but instead of hitting "R" in step 3, just hit enter. This will wipe everything off your hard drive by reformatting it; XP will then reinstall itself. Note- make a backup of anything you want to save - email, office docs, etc - because everything will be deleted doing it this way.

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  • Thanks for the vid, dude. Nice and simple. I'm a computer newbie so it worked out swell for me. Kudos, mate.

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  • YES BUT I CANT CLICK ENTER dumb

  • perfect

    

  • Could you please help me?

    I have an old pc and I want to re-install it. So I downloaded a Windows XP service pack 2 iso-file. After that I mounted the image-file using Deamon Tools. So I restarted my pc and I got the same menu as you got. I pressed enter and it said that I have the wrong cd, or the cd is damaged. So i can't install it. I also can't start my pc in normal or in safe mode either.

    So if you know how to fix this problem it would be great!

  • It wont allow me to press F8, windows xp licensing agreement shows but will not advance to he next screen

  • @tjk12321 yes

  • do need a cd for this??

  • it doesnt say press any key to boot from cd what do i do?

  • watch?v=fA4_dyt3LeY

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