True, Richard.
I had got it into my head that you were copying information from CAB files rather than doing a complete reinstall.
Going to your other thread query, I have found Acronis Disc Director Suite a very useful partition manager and boot selector. It happily creates new partitions for windows or for linux. It re-sizes them keeping data intact. It is also a boot manager for running different Operating Sytems on the same computer.
Once installed it can be activated to run before any system boots and you can choose to automatically go to one system or wait for you to choose.
Quack!
GtD.