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RE[3]: PowerShell with Windows
by BluenoseJake on Thu 16th Nov 2006 16:26
in reply to "RE[2]: PowerShell with Windows"
You could have just did a repair install with a XPSP2 CD, that would have fixed his system32 directory, then ran windows update. No need to copy things to another drive, except to maybe backup data. Just because things work differently, does not make things better or worse, just different.
Also considering that I was comparing XP's filesystem layout to Vista's, your entire post is irrelevant. You also disagreed with me on the first sentence, then agreed with me 3 lines down. Please, make up your mind
RE[4]: PowerShell with Windows
by helio9000 on Thu 16th Nov 2006 20:08
in reply to "RE[3]: PowerShell with Windows"
RE[3]: PowerShell with Windows
by hobgoblin on Fri 17th Nov 2006 21:39
in reply to "RE[2]: PowerShell with Windows"






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2005-07-05
But it isn't though.
I recently had two similar hard drive failures. One was on my Linux machine and the other was on a friend's Windows laptop (Sure his laptop is XP, but I've seen Vista builds and the directory structure, while better, is still problematic).
On Linux, I simply copied all the contents of my home directory to a portable hard drive, replace the bad drive, reinstalled Linux and copied everything back. I had to configure a couple of minor things a bit, but overall, it was a simple process.
On my friend's Windows machine, the only damage to files was done in the Windows System32 directory. Everything else was intact. However, it was almost impossible to restore his drive because things were sprawled out all over the system.
The first two things Microsoft could do to clean their directory structure would be have home directories and limit regular users ability to save anything outside of that, and get rid of the stupid alphabet partitions. They are retarded.
Edited 2006-11-16 07:36