reinstall 11.10

[bill-lancaster]

I upgraded from 10.10 (with which I was very happy). My pc was set to go into standby after 5 minutes and I believe this spoiled the upgrade to 11.10

As a result my system is rather slow doesn't seem to work properly. Also, Ubuntu updates are failing.

If I re-boot from an install CD will I preserve all my files & settings etc?

Any advice would be welcome

[darkod]

Do you mean reinstall or reboot? The title says reinstall and in the post you only mention "if I reboot".

If you boot the cd in live mode, it will not delete anything on the disk. You can use it to copy your important data.

But if you reinstall over your current installation, YES, IT WILL DELETE everything. Unless you have a separate /home partition in which case you can keep it untouched during reinstall and all files and settings there.

[bill-lancaster]

Many thanks for the advice.

I did meant reinstall from CD.

I will do a complete backup then a clean install.

Thanks again

Bill Lancaster

[shantiq]

i have found a clean install to be the only thing that works
every other route has always given me headaches down the road if not at first:KS:KS