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CactusJack · 11-20-2008, 07:31 PM

Okay, so I have XP on my computer, but it has been infested with a virus. It was just tampering with programs until today, and now I cannot get past the windows loading screen, it just auto restarts (in safe mode too). So I am going to format it on the weekend, but I still have files I want to retrieve before I do. So if I were to install Vista onto the machine would I be able to access those files while using that OS?

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CactusJack Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 25 OS: xp	Using Vista on a virus infested computer? Okay, so I have XP on my computer, but it has been infested with a virus. It was just tampering with programs until today, and now I cannot get past the windows loading screen, it just auto restarts (in safe mode too). So I am going to format it on the weekend, but I still have files I want to retrieve before I do. So if I were to install Vista onto the machine would I be able to access those files while using that OS?