Will reinstalling windows ruin my saved items?

[madcatmk2123]

After a failed attempt to fix my current XP home installation by the cd, I now get the error "not enough virtual ram or page file quota could not be set" (after quota part I believe is what it says since it moves to fast to be sure) and " insufficient system resources" when windows goes to start. I dont think its my ram or HD, but at this point I just want to get it to work to test the two. If I delete the current windows installation by the windows cd and reinstall it, will I still be able to access my files on the HD by navigation or will it not recognize them and lose everything? By the way, I switched my ram sticks with other ones and the message is still the same, so its not looking like my RAM.Thanks for the help.

 

[AMDIsTheBest010]

worth a try isnt it since nothin else is workin?

 

[iss]

if you delete the current widnows installation and reformat and reinstall your files will be gone. if you need to retrieve data, then build a BartPE disk recover your files then do the reformat and reinstall.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/