Repairing a Windows install

[XM5er]

I managed to sort out my bios issues the other day but when fiddling around trying to get my system to boot, I managed to overwrite part of my W2K install.

My question is, is there a way of repairing this without losing all of my other installed programs. Do I need to back up registry entries or summat.

I throw it to the collective genius of PH to help a fumbling idiot.

[Plotloss]

If you reinstall Windows 2000 on top of itself it should leave all the programs in situ no worries.

You may lose colour and display settings but thats no biggie...

[XM5er]

I'll give it a go then, I've got the entire Hdd backed up onto a new one anyway so I might as well try.

[xm5er]

Well that didn't work.

Clean install it is then.