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A nice waste of time (none / 0) (#10)
by Anonymous User on Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 12:35:42 PM PDT

After dealing with Windows systems professionally for 17 years, all I have to say is that anyone who would spend that many hours and weeks trying to fix a busted Windows installation when it would probably have taken about 4 hours (assuming lots of time getting your apps just so) to completely reload Windows from scratch is not really thinking clearly.

It's true that not all users are equipped to do a complete reload, but anyone who's reading this column (and who has such a tricked out environment) could do that with much less trouble. As for the data backup, you would be much better served buying an external USB hard drive (250GB mini drive for <$150 at most stores) and just dragging a copy up there.</p>

And I concur with the other commenter: beware the brand new service pack! I would wait about six months before I tried it. (although I haven't had a problem with normal Windows Update in years).

Sometimes the low tech solution ("FFR: Fdisk, Fomat, Reload") is the best one.





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