How to Fix Your Relatives' Terrible Computer. HOLY CRAP. Windows CDs are possibly the most dangerous things a person could get their hands on. I work in a computer repair shop and a good percentage of the system problems we have are caused by morons that installed Windows OVER their recovery partition (I mean, yes, into an ~8gb partition, with their original Windows inactive in the big 150gb partition next to it that they're unaware of), or tried "repairing" it with an old XP Pro Corp CD they had laying around. And here, this article is saying to just "run it, erase partitions, let it do its thing"?! Without any regard to what type (home/pro, oem/retail) the disc is? Or even DRIVERS?
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