I'm not sure why it did not work as your friend had
planned.  When you install programs do you always
install to the default directory that the program
recommends?  If not, you will have to determine
where the programs were actually installed, and do
the reinstalls into those directories.

Either that, or find were the new installs went,
and move your old data over to there and delete
the old program files at the old location(s).
      Rick Glazier


Tom Sykora <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>Help!
>On the advice of a friend who does tech support, I
>deltreed windows and reinstalled it, without fdisking
>my new hd, leaving all my old installs intact on the hd.
>
>The reinstall and a few tweaks seems to have solved my
>freeze problem, but now my old installs/files are somewhere
>on the hd.
>
>When I go to MY COMPUTER, the C: drive is no longer
>identified as C:, it is now  {  Disk1part01 (C:)  }
>
>I tried to reinstall two 'already on the hard drive programs,'
>thinking the reinstall would overwrite what was there and
>create a desktop icon for me, and add the program to the new
>windows reinstall.
>No go.  The two I tried, simply added a new copy of the program.
>So now I have two copies of both of the new installs.

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