IIRC, when you do the install there is an option whether or not to format the HD. If you didn't format the HD all of your data should still be there. Granted none of the apps will work if they require registration with the new .dll's but that's the case anytime you reinstall windoze. But all data files (i.e word docs, images etc) should be there. One thing also since you are starting from scratch with a new OS, go out and buy an external zip drive and back you sh*t up on a regular schedule. I had to learn the hard way, it wasn't a virus or anything but a hard drive failure, sometimes they just go bad. Anyway I lost 2 f**kin years of data because of it, which equates into alot of stuff that I needed, I had about 1/2 of it backup up on another system so it was not a complete loss, but I was getting hammered for the stuff that I did not back up, needless to say it was alot of late nights rewriting code.........I learned my lesson, the zip drive is the best $100 I have spent in a long time.
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