Recover without deleting any files

Laptop - HP Pavilion G4 - 1201tx
OS - Windows 7 Home Basic x64
I have been having quite a lot of problems after updating AMD drivers - No text on start(Fonts corrupt) (Fixed), Windows drive icons appear to be corrupt, cannot start HP recovery manager after booting(or ANY HP program and the Intel programs for that matter). So, I decided to restore my laptop to its original state.
Here's the question -
How do I reinstall windows 7 from the recovery drive without deleting the 100+gb of data present in the C: drive?
Minimized Image Recovery allows me to backup all files of specific filetypes.Isn't it possible to re-install only Windows, leaving everything else intact??
Please help
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It maybe possible, but not with the Recovery media. It may ask about saving files but you have to have a reliable place to put the data and then restore it. I would suggest NOT trusting that much data to chance. Get an external hard drive and make a backup of the data to the drive, then do the Recovery and return the data.
Doing a "Repair install" similar to what could have been accomplished with WinXP requires preparation, see and study here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/243190/how_to_repair_a_corrupt_windows_7_installation.html
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