Repair a Windows install
Feb 10, 2020
3 minutes
Not all reinstalls require a complete wipe of your hard drive. A repair or refresh installation leaves your programs, settings and files in place, and restricts itself to installing a fresh copy of your Windows files over the top of your existing copy. If your problem is linked to a corrupt file or Windows setting, the repair installation can usually fix it.
All repair installs share one common characteristic: you must launch them from Windows
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