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DelJo63
There's an old joke from a carpenter
there was a better choice.
ALWAYS get a second opinion whenever you're told to reformat your HD!
Many support people do not know how to really FIX some problems OR they don't
want to take the time to walk you through a difficult solution.
As an example a symptom like WINDOWS\System32\Config\System is corrupt
is frequently fixable, but it's too late if you start down the reformat path
(see https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic98544.html)
There's always the trade-off of time to fixit vs time to recreate it, but as many do
not have any backups, walking slowly thru a list of alternative actions considering the pros/cons
may be very helpful. More than once I've seen systems with nasty symptoms
that implied reinstall or reformat and the solution was some trivial task like fixmbr or
the example above.
At the very least, you should have some good insight as to what is important to you
on your system(s) and take some kind of action to ensure that it is duplicated
elsewhere for that nasty day that the 'chickens come home to roost'.
Techspot has lots of great information on specific problems and their solutions --
PLEASE spend some time SEARCHING before you wipe your HD clean and suffer major losses.
No matter how many times I cut that piece of wood, it still comes up too short
Many times we try to find a silver bullet to fix our problem, only to find later thatthere was a better choice.
ALWAYS get a second opinion whenever you're told to reformat your HD!
Many support people do not know how to really FIX some problems OR they don't
want to take the time to walk you through a difficult solution.
As an example a symptom like WINDOWS\System32\Config\System is corrupt
is frequently fixable, but it's too late if you start down the reformat path
(see https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic98544.html)
There's always the trade-off of time to fixit vs time to recreate it, but as many do
not have any backups, walking slowly thru a list of alternative actions considering the pros/cons
may be very helpful. More than once I've seen systems with nasty symptoms
that implied reinstall or reformat and the solution was some trivial task like fixmbr or
the example above.
At the very least, you should have some good insight as to what is important to you
on your system(s) and take some kind of action to ensure that it is duplicated
elsewhere for that nasty day that the 'chickens come home to roost'.
Techspot has lots of great information on specific problems and their solutions --
PLEASE spend some time SEARCHING before you wipe your HD clean and suffer major losses.
