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Thread: XP's No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option

  1. Sep 21, 2006, 04:42 PM #1
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    Default XP's No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option

    Found this Quite Interesting.

    Fred Langa shows you how to completely rebuild, repair, or refresh an existing XP installation without losing data and without having to reinstall user software or reformat or otherwise destructively alter the setup.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rodalembs View Post
    Found this Quite Interesting.



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    how did he do it someone plz explain
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  3. Sep 21, 2006, 05:18 PM #3
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    I have known how to do that for some time now and in many situations, it is a life saver but as I have learned from experience, it will not bring back a Damages Installation of XP 100% of the time.
    Especially if it is a hardware problem or some some messed up software.
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    I take it that this will not work with laptops without floppy drives.


    I have a legetimate copy of XP home installed on my laptop. I want to install a (questionable) copy of Windows Media Center. Does anyone know if I can use this to "restore" a copy of Media Center on my machine?
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    Quote Originally Posted by girldemsuga View Post
    Especially if it is a hardware problem or some some messed up software.
    Then it would not be XP issue ehhhh?
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    when i first clicked on this thread i tauhght i would see something like rebuild xp and have no more problems again

    this not really new it just a technical, but it does not always work out
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    I thought everyone knew this by now... I've been doing it successfully for a while now... Choose the second repair option and everything comes back fine... programs registry is all good etc etc etc.... I never use the first repair option... its never worked for me and also the users I support seem to screw things up so badly recovery console doesnt help either
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    Didnt everyone know about this did this up to 2 days ago very useful when your pc starts to lagand you dont know why.
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    really.. no. obviously everybody didn't know.. nice post rodalembs.. very informative if i was still running windows i'ld backflip.. i could have used this so many times in the past but ended up formatting... sigh..... and losing data some of the time too..
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    I have made around two or three previous mposts on the steps of carrying out this procedure. It is a life saver, but it sucks when you had done windows update after you installed windows xp.

    The most serious issue i had is that i had to re-register the .dll files for the windows WMI. Otherwise, second repair is a life saver.
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