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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Everything bad I have ever done or said or thought has just come back and bit me in the BUTT!!!
Laptop is with computer guy.
Corrupted something, couldn't download updates now its toast, and he has to wipe the hd and reinstall os.
Did I back ANYTHING up??? Oh, hell no, why would I do that?? It would never happen to me because I'm to frackin' careful, right?
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Computer guy
should be able to rescue stuff from the HD before wiping and reinstallation.
When I have to do something like that, I install the drive as an additional drive on another machine. Windows sees it and it shows up as a drive in My Computer. I can access it, and copy stuff I want to keep off of it elsewhere before I wipe and reinstall.
It's also possible to reinstall Windows
without wiping the drive, and I've done so. (It's non-standard and non-intuitive, so it's easy enough to not know it can be done.) It removes and replaces the Windows installation without touching the rest of the file system. You still have to reinstall most of your programs, because they require entries in the Windows registry to function, and re-installing Windows wipes and recreates the registry, but your
data should still be there and unaffected.
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Dennis