Reinstall XP Without Losing All Your Stuff

September 03, 2010

Reinstall XP Without Losing All Your Stuff

By Bryan Young

I was recently given the task of reinstalling XP on my coworker's machine. He had contracted a nasty virus and despite my best efforts, I could not oust it. So I decided that reinstalling would be the best course of action. Of course, the first question asked was "what about all my stuff?"

This is of course a valid question, but I assured him that it wouldn't be an issue. This is how I reinstalled XP on his machine while maintaining all of his documents, desktop icons, Thunderbird emails, and even Firefox configuration.

1. Log on as Administrator. For those of you who run with admin privileges, shame on you, but you will need to log onto a different account with admin privileges.

2. Copy profile root to a backup medium. I used a server on the network, but this can also be done with a CD-R (or DVD-R if you have a lot of stuff). Your profile root is at C:\Documents and Settings\[your username].

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