You'd need sited help, but if you have it you can use the disc and on the install fresh copy or repair you'd press r to repair. If it helps, here's the way it goes, assuming that you can get your cd to load to the welcome to setup screen, that is to say, you have the pc set to boot from cd, and you have any sata drivers (if any are needed). If so, when the setup loads to the welcome screen, you press enter for next, then after the license agreement comes up, give it a minute just to be sure, press f8 to agree. Then, wait for the setup to search for previous installations, another minute to be sure. After it finishes, it'll show the screen i'm refering to, press r and it'll start the reinstall/repair process. It's not a clean install, i think it just replaces any system files that it can't find or that have been modified/updated... I believe programs, documents, settings/preferences all stay in place... HTH, D!J!X! _____ From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryan Garaventa Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 9:15 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Installing WinXP over a prior installation? Does anyone know if it's possible to reinstall WinXP Pro over a prior installation? I'm missing some critical Windows files, and I'm hoping this will clear everything up. I just don't want to lose screen reader speech during the process. Thanks, Bryan