Will reinstalling XP delete the files i have on my hard drive?

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Here's the deal:
my system was dual booted with xp pro and linux... they were each on seperate partitions. I decided to delete the partition that linux was on, which I have done successfully, but now XP will not boot. I have the 6 startup disks for xp, and I can get to the recovery console, but can go no farther. If I had a disk with boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect, i would just sys: c... but I do not have such a disk... I guess my real question... If I reinstall XP onto the partition that still contains all of my files i.e. OS files, music, pics... will any of the non os files be damaged?
 
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| Here's the deal:
| my system was dual booted with xp pro and linux... they were each on seperate partitions. I decided to
delete the partition that linux was on, which I have done successfully, but now XP will not boot. I have the
6 startup disks for xp, and I can get to the recovery console, but can go no farther. If I had a disk with
boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect, i would just sys: c... but I do not have such a disk... I guess my real
question... If I reinstall XP onto the partition that still contains all of my files i.e. OS files, music,
pics... will any of the non os files be damaged?
 
Thank you, but that article has nothing to do with my situation. My hard drive was partitioned with XP on C: and Linux on D:... Linux has been unistalled and the D drive has been reformatted. Now I cannot boot to XP, i get an error message during boot that says disk boot error. If i get to the recovery console and reinstall XP onto my C drive, will any of my files( music, video, docs) get erased???
 
Conducting a repair should not effect your programs. You will need to
use the Update site to reapply the patches.
You may want to try the fixmbr and bootcfg commands from the Recovery
Console first. Should that fail, boot to the XP CD, press enter, then
the second R for repair.

marco said:
Thank you, but that article has nothing to do with my situation. My
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hard drive was partitioned with XP on C: and Linux on D:... Linux has
been unistalled and the D drive has been reformatted. Now I cannot boot
to XP, i get an error message during boot that says disk boot error. If
i get to the recovery console and reinstall XP onto my C drive, will any
of my files( music, video, docs) get erased???
 
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