Quick Windows reinstallation

Hello, windows became unstable and slow, can anyone tell me how to reinstall windows quickly and without losing any data? I read somewhere that it's possible to install windows in the unattended mode. How's that? What's needed for that?

 

Did your computer ship with recovery Disc?

 

You can easily install Windows in the unattended mode. Only you gotta have brains for that

here's an extract from the manual on unattended installation

read carefully, might work out for you as well.

There are different ways to go in case of unattended installation:
1. free, but difficult (do it all manually, read stuff, get into details)
Unattended Windows installation manual.
http://www.msfn.org/board/

2. paid and easy:
Almeza Multiset
http://www.almeza.com

Way back I tried both, now I have this one DVD from MultiSet
unattended windows installation + all the rest (drivers, service packs, software)

 

Figuring out how to do an unattended install is far from quick. Unless you're rolling out more than 10 PCs, a manual install will get your system back up and running faster. Although, you could check out vLite and see if that helps you.

Otherwise, you can do a reinstall on top of the old stuff, without losing data. HOWEVER, you will also need to reinstall almost all of the programs on your system, and it will be a mess. The best thing to do is back up all of your data, then do a clean install with formatting the disk.

 

"Quick" and "Windows reinstallation" are a bit of an oxymoron. Like Jumbo Shrimp or deafening silence. Either way, before you do anything, burn your critical data to a DVD (or 5), and TEST IT. Make sure you can read the backups. After that, go ahead and follow the suggestions above.