I am trying to get an old Windows 3.1 SYSTEM w/ Dos 6.22 running again.

The hard drive has an important machine operating program on it (no BACKUP available).

The drive, MEMORY, and CPU test OK.

The computer was HIT w/ brownout and power surges causing the config, dos, and possibly,  Windows file to become corrupt.

I have fixed the config and dos files(reload DOS 6.22), but the system hangs when GOING to start windows.
Autoexec.bat is OK.

Can I reload Windows without damaging the important machine operating program?

I will be working on the system for a few days.
I have ordered vintage utility software WinProbe 4 and Norton V2.0

I only have a 3.5 floppy and a LPT1 port available

Any ideas will be helpful

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Yes, you can, but you will probably have to work on recreating functional program groups, etc. I would back up win.ini and system.ini in the windows directory first to a floppy.  Worth a try before you re-install...

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