Will i lose my edited work if i reinstall lr4 disk?

Hello i have run into a major issue. I'm running Lightroom 4.2 RC. I purchase the upgraded copy of LR4 from LR3 and i have upgraded to Lr4.2 since then I'm now getting an error message saying the beta version has expired. From my research all i have to do is an update and this will fix the issue but for some reason my computer is not allowing me to download any program from online.
My question is if i put in my upgrade version of Lightroom 4 disk in will i lose all of my edited work that I have completed??? i need to get Some work to a client and I'll deal with my computer later. Thanks for the help!!

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The original files are on your hard disk and are not altered by Lightroom in any way. However you need to make copies of these files to another disk to have a recovery source in the event of a failure of the drive where the originals are stored.

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