Hello! My Mothers computer needs to be wiped clean and windows xp home reinstalled. She has many issues regarding missing files, errors, collected junk and cant even access the help files or update correctly anymore.
My thought is to do a clean install. I tried repairing but no dice. Mom has alot of family history info and some games, the usual for a barely used home computer, however the hard disk has c: with her current info and then E: (I think its e anyway) which was done by the computer store when she bought this computer a few years ago. They just copied all the stuff from her old computer to this partition. In any case, She is terrified that I will lose some of her "stuff" even thought most of it needs to be removed anyway.
Can anyone tell me what is the best, easiest, safest, way to go about saving her data and programs.
I guess a possibility is just networking it to my computer, saving it all on mine and then just dumping it back onto hers. Is that a possibility? I really need to spend the time to clean out all the crap that's just not pessary.
Hmm...
Thanks in advance for any help or advice!