Warning: most of the data will be preserved but some risk of being deleted when reinstalling.

You can, if you wish, save your data using a Live CD before using one of these two possibilities.

For this, we recommend the Mini-XP found on the Live Hiren Boot CD.

Here is the state of our computer (virtual machine in fact) before reinstalling.

If you do not know how, read our tutorial Change the BIOS boot priority.

In this tutorial, this is the first option that interests us.

Note: Unlike Windows Vista, 7,., under Win.

XP, the letter of the partition is not automatically renamed to C.

Therefore you must select the first partition to install Windows to not end up with a Windows partition D or others.

By choosing this option, the installation wizard does not format the partition, and therefore the data will not be erased.

Program files remain on the hard drive but they will no longer start because the registry keys and other system files have been deleted.

We will tell the wizard to install Windows XP to another folder.

If it appears disabled, you may have made a mistake or it does not match the edition you are trying to install.

Note: Depending on the version of the installation CD (SP1, SP2 or SP3), it is sometimes possible to skip this step.

By default, the wizard uses the beginning of the name you specified previously and adds a dash random numbers to avoid conflicts of NETBIOS names on the network.

This account is not visible by default when you start in Safe Mode.

These parameters are saved in the BIOS of the motherboard and are not lost when the battery CR2032 3V (on the motherboard) is discharged.

Either you want to set a static LAN IP address to prevent it changes every x time, or you leave the default configuration.

Either you do enter a Active Directory domain configured on your computer running Windows Server network.

If you want to register your copy of Windows, select Yes, I want to register and activate Windows at the same time.

The former named WINDOWS and the new which is named with the name you specify when reinstalling.

The old accounts kept their original names, such as: All Users and InformatiWeb.

And new are now named this way Account name.Machine name or Account name.Name of the new Windows folder.

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