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re: using IBM Recovery disk
Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Wanda
(7 messages posted)
Thanks for your response. I did save all my favorites, but, if it wipes off the
hard drive, does that mean that all the disk space has been recovered? In other
words, I didn't need a new computer? The new one is certainly not any faster than
the old one, which is 8 yrs old.
Wanda
On Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 7:24 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>|[...]the Recovery disk[...]
>|Does it recover disc space as if it was new from the factory?
>| Wanda
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>The name "Recovery Disk" is misleading.
>What it does is DESTROY everything that happened since you got the computer:
>First it wipes off the hard drive,
>then it takes the computer back to the way it came from the factory.
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>I would think this was a **BAD** thing
>as any **data** files on the computer will be erased[1]
>...or don't you create documents / save email, photos, Internet
Favorites,
>etc.?
>...*OR* did you have a *wise* guru who taught you how to back up your files?
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>[1] There are better, more selective ways to make hard disk space.
>...and, in addition to losing your *personal* files,
>any *customization* you had done to Windows/programs will have to be re-done.
>
>This sort of "Clean Install" should be reserved
>for when there are MASSIVE problems with the computer.
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