Rebuilding a broken Windows XP operating system
Fred Langa has written another of his detailed Desktop Pipeline articles on maintaining and/or repairing Windows XP. This one is XP’s Nondestructive Rebuild Option. He says that Microsoft makes it hard to find and use this method
But it’s worth exploring because this option lets you completely and nondestructively rebuild, repair, or refresh an existing XP installation while leaving already-installed software alone (no reinstallation needed!). It also leaves user accounts, names, and passwords untouched and takes only a fraction of the time a full, from-scratch reinstall does.
The method is something everybody should know if they have a full Windows installation disk. But the problem is that a majority of home users have only a restore disk (if that). For those who do have an actual installation disk, this article should be kept for your future reference. It might save you a lot of trouble one day.
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