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Langa Letter: XP’s No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option

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, reformat, or otherwise destructively alter the setup.
By Fred Langa, InformationWeek
June 19, 2006
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897

The “it” in this case is XP’s most powerful rebuild/repair option, and yet Microsoft chose to hide it behind seeming dead ends, red herrings, and a recycled interface that makes it hard to find and (at first) somewhat confusing to use.

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