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Millenium Edition Install w/out losing data

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by gale

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I am working on a customers PC with ME installed. The problem it has is with an iosubsys driver corruption or low memory. I have tried countless things trying to alleviate the error based on KB articles and web searches.
The last option is a OS re-install. However, there is much data that the customer doesn't wish to lose.
Is it possible to re-install ME without losing the data?
I have started setup but stopped when it wanted to copy files for setup.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

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by curacao_dejavu

yes you can, simply reinstall in the same folder as before, after that you need to reinstall the programs.
the data won't be affected.
the safest way of course is to move the data to a network drive, another partition ,another folder completely or burn a cd with tha data.

Leopold

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