Reinstalling XP Pro
My laptop crashed this morning, well would not start up. It said that the system could not find one of the .exe files and that I should open with the XP installation disc and repair the programme. I tried this, but it then said that there was no data and that I should reinstall XP from scratch. this I have done, but when checked in the system it seems to have held over parts of the old programmes. There is also about 8Gb of disc space missing.
As the data on my laptop was also around 8Gb, does this mean that I can get it back somehow? if it does then it would save me a lot of work.
In the past when I have reinstalled operating systems it formatted the disc and overwrote everything.