You might want to reformat the partition with all the programs if you're going to reinstall the OS, since you'll have to reinstall all the software anyway.  I would want to start with a completely clean slate.  I am unaware of any advantage to having programs on a different partition.  All the registry stuff will be in the OS partition, and without that, nothing will run.  In the olden days when I was hurting for Hard drive space I sometimes installed big programs on zip disks.  I would just reformat the whole disk and start again.

>I have OS, Win98, on one partition, programs on another. Several pointed
>out that if I reformat and reinstall OS, I will have to reinstall
>programs that are on other partition. Should I uninstall programs before
>reinstalling? Is there no advantage in having programs on separate
>partition?
>
>Demetri Kolokotronis
>
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