Go into your bios by hiting the delete key when you first turn on your pc. Change the boot order of your drives so that the CDROM is first. Save and restart your computer. After that, you should see "boot from CD..." at the bottom of your screen. Press enter and it should give you the option to boot from the hard drive or the CD rom. You'll see a couple of options pertaining to just running from the hard drive or just command line, or running the setup CD. You *should* be able to resinstall Windows without it affecting any of your programs.

--Philip
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