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To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (21173)	7/4/2001 2:28:43 AM
From: Ed Forrest	Respond to of 110652

I am thinking of reinstalling WIN98 SE directly over my existing installation. I wonder if anyone has tried this and what kind of luck... or problems... Martin I have done this many times with SE and ME and my settings have always been retained. Ed

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (21173)	7/4/2001 6:51:12 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

Martin There are some more things I would try before reinstalling 98SE. Have you used the repair tool to restore your previous version of IE? If not, I'd try that and then check and see if the problem still exists. Have you tried the sites with another browser such as opera or netscape? You might try the new IE6 beta. Several on this thread are using it successfully. Backing up the favs is easy. Bookmarks: in an internet explorer window go to file/import and export/next/choose the function you want (export favs)/make sure the top line (favorites) is selected in blue/next/browse to wherever you want to store the backup and name it something that you can remember (I add the date at the end of bookmark)/next/ finish. You can also go to C:\WINDOWS\Favorites and select all within the folder/copy and paste into another folder and just reverse the process when you need to restore. Assuming Outlook Express is your email program, here's a link on backing up what you need. tomsterdam.com Reinstalling 98SE should cause you no problems or loss of data. Installed programs or data files should not be affected. tc

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (21173)	7/4/2001 7:54:46 AM
From: tanstfl	Respond to of 110652

Hi Marty, A re-install presents you with the old double edged sword. It is a fairly safe procedure because it keeps all your settings and data; which is also the downside. Unless there is actually corruption present somewhere or something missing you'll end up right back where you started. Course, it only takes about an hour, so not a real catastrophe, timewise, if it fails. There is a remote possibility that you'll trash things so that you can no longer even start windows. Even then, it almost never trashes the data, so you can still access it as the D drive. Speaking of d-drives, I think I mentioned it before; I see new 30 Gig Western Digital ATA-100 7200 RPM drives for under $100 before shipping and handling is added on. Get one of those, install windows fresh, and see if the problem goes away. If it doesn't, then the problem either lies elsewhere or you have a driver/hardware problem that will require a tech. (Unless, of course, you have two or three sets of spares for every component that you can swap in and out to isolate the problem; I know I do <g>). If the problem goes away, put your old drive as a slave behind the new drive and get all those things you never remember to back up at your leisure. Or you can list your components and what you're not able to do in detail. If I have a reasonably close match, I'll do an install and verification on a 5 or 6 Gig drive and you can have it for the shipping charge. Take out your old drive and see if it works in your machine. If it does, add your software packages one at a time, doing a test after each new package. If it still works after you're done then you're stuck with requiring the fresh install and retrieving your data from the old drive. (This all pre-supposes that a re-install doesn't fix your problem). Good luck, Steve