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Backing up windows system files

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by ossieblack

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One of the frequent problems i have seen on the net is windows system files being corrupted thus making windows unbootable, yet i have not seen programs and\or step specifically designed to backup these crucial files and restore them when things go wrong. The usual suspects are boot.ini, hal.sys or hal.dll, ntldr, ntdetect etc. The usual solution is to reload windows (this should be a last resort)what else can we do?

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by dixon

...offers software that creates a fully bootable copy of the entire drive. It works slick!

by ---tk---

has worked wonders for me! It can clean up alot of corruption (but not perfect). And if that doesn't work you can boot to the XP cd, repair option, and reinstall most if not all of those files manually through cmd.

I always follow to one rule, if it takes more than 2 hrs to fix a problem. Reinstall the OS... its just quicker, and solves the issue!

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