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Re: Blue Screens
« Reply #15 on: October 31, 2007, 11:00:12 AM »
you can repair windows, problem is it's a Major Pain.  use a boot disk to replace four initialization files, boot.ini, ntdlr, then I guess you could use an old registry, if you have backups.  then on a working system (or from internet data) see what the virus altered, and use the recovery console to repair the damages.   

i've seen this done quite a few times, but it's not something i'd want to do, storage is cheap now, and you can backup with gigabit ethernet, no need to worry really.
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Re: Blue Screens
« Reply #16 on: October 31, 2007, 11:07:50 AM »
you can repair windows, problem is it's a Major Pain.  use a boot disk to replace four initialization files, boot.ini, ntdlr, then I guess you could use an old registry, if you have backups.  then on a working system (or from internet data) see what the virus altered, and use the recovery console to repair the damages.   

i've seen this done quite a few times, but it's not something i'd want to do, storage is cheap now, and you can backup with gigabit ethernet, no need to worry really.

Exactly. It's a major pain, isn't worth it. In the end you may get into Windows again, maybe not. If you do you're still going to be stuck with system that will most likely continue to be unstable.

If you don't use a lot of storage you can buy a new hard drive for like $25-$30... Install Windows to the new drive. Setup a MASTER AND SLAVE (screw you PC people) setup with your new drive and your old drive (new drive master). When you boot into Windows you will be able to pull any files you wanted off your old drive to the new one. This is always the route I take. If people get their Windows to a point where it blue screens then screw it, start over and pull their data off the drive once you get a new drive setup with Windows.
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