How do i reload windows without losing my program's and data

biffcheeze · Post by **biffcheeze** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:57 pm

hi guys,

my laptop needs a reload, but how do i do this without losing my programes ableton sets, samples etc??

cheers

baz

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:01 am

You can save the data, preferably to an external drive (but you already did that right

)

bu not programs

You can install xp over itself but it is going to rewrite the registry and lose any links to the installed programs. You'll need to reinstall. There are hacks out there to do it but I would not recommend it at all.

biffcheeze · Post by **biffcheeze** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:03 am

so what ya saying is there is no way to reload windows without losing programs

the_viirus · Post by **the_viirus** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:10 am

biffcheeze wrote:so what ya saying is there is no way to reload windows without losing programs

yes.

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:19 am

You can run a repair off of the xp cd and that will allow you to keep the programs but I would not recommend any hacks to do it. If you have all of your data all backed up and want to try a repair method then here is a link.

http://www.informationweek.com/showArti ... =189400897

There are backup and imaging applications out there that you can use to go back to a previous state of windows but you would have had to already been using it before you ran into problems.

drb · Post by **drb** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:12 am

biffcheeze wrote:so what ya saying is there is no way to reload windows without losing programs

Doing a Windows repair install (xp) should not affect your Ableton stuff at all.

It only affects the actual OS files