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Hi! I have what may appear to be a silly question...
I have a computer running a sick and ready-to-die copy of Windows 2000 (a dying video card turned off the computer spontaneously a lot and bit by bit destroyed the OS). I want to put XP on it, but I have no way of backing up my data. That is, I don't have the money to spend on a drive or CD-ROMs to burn it off.
I don't have the hard drive space to move it to a different folder.
Now, I also don't have a working floppy drive, so booting into DOS to rename my Documents & Settings folder might be problematic.
My question: Can I install Windows XP and *not* have the Documents & Settings folder overwritten? In other words, can I install XP and still be able to read my pdfs, docs, use my little tiny freeware programs, etc and not worry about them going away because of a virgin Documents & Settings folder?
If there's a solution I'm missing please let me know.
I have a computer running a sick and ready-to-die copy of Windows 2000 (a dying video card turned off the computer spontaneously a lot and bit by bit destroyed the OS). I want to put XP on it, but I have no way of backing up my data. That is, I don't have the money to spend on a drive or CD-ROMs to burn it off.
I don't have the hard drive space to move it to a different folder.
Now, I also don't have a working floppy drive, so booting into DOS to rename my Documents & Settings folder might be problematic.
My question: Can I install Windows XP and *not* have the Documents & Settings folder overwritten? In other words, can I install XP and still be able to read my pdfs, docs, use my little tiny freeware programs, etc and not worry about them going away because of a virgin Documents & Settings folder?
If there's a solution I'm missing please let me know.