RESTORING BACKUP FOLDERS TO REFORMATTED DRIVE

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Paul B. Carnall

Am installing new upgraded motherboard, CPU, RAM and Hard Drive on my
Computer and will obviously have to re-install Win XP Home. I have all my
program files backed up on a DVD RAM disk (4.7GB).

Can I do a restore of my backed up files after reinstalling WinXP and will
they work - or - do I have to reinstall all my programs again?

Many thanks

Paul
 
If you're doing a clean install, no this won't work. The files are not
enough, in most cases. There are other components that are placed in other
folders, that you may have missed, and then there are the Registry entries
that the program creates for itself.
 
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