Little Known Ways to Repair Windows
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Or Blogging by the Skin of My Teeth:
Have you ever had one of those days? Weeks? Months or years perhaps? Or maybe even decades?
In my case the past month or so has been a little crazy. If you have been reading me regularly you will know that I’ve had my share of personal struggles.
1. I recently had an operation;
2. My car was stolen and torched;
3. I also had a minor stroke not long ago.
Well it seems that life still has more curves to throw at me. Yesterday my computer screen just blanked out, and when I tried to reboot Windows XP refused to budge. It just left a terse message saying that an important system file was missing.
I booted into my second backup hard drive to check it out and lo and behold the file was indeed still there. So my next assumption was somehow the file must have corrupted itself.
Here is what I did to fix it:
From my other hard drive I googled around and found lots of complicated methods but none of them suited my particular case. I suspected that the integrity of my copy of Windows just wasn’t up to snuff so I opted to just repair it.
Some of you might not be aware of Windows XP’s ability to repair itself and it has saved my a__ more than once. Some purists out there recommend that you must format and reinstall Windows all over again, but when you have a gagillian, bazillian software programs like I do that is not a prospect I take lightly.
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Thanks for the great info Bloke. My copy of Windows has been acting a little weird lately so I tried your method and it’s running much better now.
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Yes, thanks for the tip. It saved my ass too.
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Hi bloke,
Thats was a great info, and I think it will help a lot of non technical person out there, seeking for the answer
I myself not a pro, but I also did format my PC a few time due to virus attack. Well I agree with what you said, “if you have a gagillian, bazillian software programs like I do, format and reinstall Windows all over again is not a prospect I take lightly”.
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Amen brother
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Blog Bloke (@blogbloketips) reply on July 10th, 2008 2:47 pm:
Hey Bloke. Ive had to redo my pcs many times, so I feel your pain. So far I haven’t had to reinstall XP(needs it bad) or Vista(still running good). Needless to say Ive know format and fdisk real well.
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Misery loves company
Feel the pain
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Blog Bloke (@blogbloketips) reply on July 11th, 2008 3:20 pm:
You are 100% on point and explained the stuff with non technical jargons for the common man.
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That is a useful info. Another way which I have been doing is to make a full back up of my working hard drive to include of course the OS. In case of OS trouble or hard drive failure, I will just restore my full back up. It saves a lot of hassle.
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@Fix Computer, do you use cloning software to make your backup? If you do which software? Have you also tried this on an outboard hard drive?
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Blog Bloke (@blogbloketips) reply on March 11th, 2009 4:58 pm:
i was in problem when my whole screen was black and have to install new windows soon too start my work. it is really headache when it is first time but later when we learn the cause and repairing it it is good to gain knowledge all together.
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virus is big problem that i faced in the beginning for which i took my system to repair guy to get everything installed again but God’s grace i am learning things now and handle it on my own keeping my system in good condition.
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I’ve had one of those days, things seem to get worse and worse and when you think it’s all over you boot up your PC and you get the blue screen of death!
The blue screen just tops it all up.
I like your blog by the way, keep it up!
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Nice post to repair your windows XP. But please let me know that how to fix your windows if you have reinstalled your windows twice and again it shows you “win 32″ problem.
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Excellent post. I’m actually surprised the use of blogs and wikis isn’t higher.
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Thanks For sharing u r information . U r information every one can easily understandable .
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wow this has helped tremendously!
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Great tips, I even found one I did know before.
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