Reinstalling Windows

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Hey,

My Windows 7 partition is absolutely screwed. I'm not too sure what's wrong with it but it constantly gives me blue screens of death. I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem as my Ubuntu partition gives me no troubles. It is on a seperate hard drive but I've carried out health checks on the Window's hard drive and results come back clean. I would just format the hard drive but I have a lot of data I need. Is it possible to just reinstall Windows over a current installation without formatting the disk? I don't want to spend £30+ just to back-up my data. I would use DVDs but it's about 500gb of stuff.

Thanks for any adivce. I finish exams tomorrow and want to play some games :)
 
For important backups just get a second drive :) the number of customers I have in my industry who leave data security to chance makes me want to cry!

You can reinstall without formatting (puts the old data in a folder called Windows.old) but I can't say I've done it with 7.
 
SparkyG said:
I you tried to repair your current Win 7 install?
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I have but it doesn't report any problems? I've even experienced blue screens in safe mode but the PC is rock-solid when I'm on Ubuntu.

How likely is it that the Window's HDD is screwed? It's quite new (about 16 months). Can anyone recommend some tools I can use in Linux to health check the HDD? Like I said I have tested it and results come back clean. I wanna game :(
 
When I point that prog to "/media/Windows 7" it comes up with possibly the least descriptive error message I've ever encountered. It apparently means that it won't accept a mount point. Any tips?
 
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