My imac shuts down a few mins after it boots into tiger

I ran a program that frees up hard driv3e space by deleting all the unused language files from the operating system. I was disappointed when it only cleared up 104mb of space. Seconds later my imac just turned off. Now when I boot it up, it works fine for 2-3 mins and then turns off instantly.
Is there a way to reinstall the operating system over the one I have now. My hard drive is loaded with data I need to keep and my 2 external hard drives are filled to the max.

I forgot to say I want to reinstall tiger without losing any data stored in random places on my hard drive.

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