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Reinstall Win XP Question

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I was wondering if ur doing a reinstall of win xp using the repair option from the boot cd, will i lose any of the drivers(sound, graphics, printer, etc.) i have currently installed?

Name: Hooner
Date: January 19, 2004 at 23:01:51 Pacific

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You are either doing a reinstall or a repair, they are not the same thing. If you are repairing from the Xp CD as you say, then no, you will not lose any drivers, settings, or data.

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Name: gabep
Date: January 20, 2004 at 05:38:22 Pacific

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you will lose all the XP updates uncluding SP1a.

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so the only thing that will be gone are the XP updates if i did the repair option, correct? Thanks in advance.

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