(If you don??™t see the aforementioned Repair Your Computer
option, your PC manufacturer screwed up; at this point, you
should contact the company and demand a genuine Windows
install disc.)
Otherwise, if you have the Home Premium or Home Basic edition, you may
have more work cut out for you. Assuming you??™ve used the Back Up Files
wizard described earlier in this chapter, you??™ll need to install Windows or
use your PC??™s recovery disc before you can restore any of your files. (You??™ll
also need to install each of your applications if you want to subsequently
open your documents.) Once you??™re back in Windows, open the Backup
and Restore Center (shown previously in Figure 6-11), click the Restore files
button, and follow the prompts.
But what if your hard disk isn??™t empty? Say Windows got hosed and won??™t
start, or perhaps you just lost half your data files. Unless your backup is
from this morning, you won??™t necessarily want to erase all your recent files
and replace them with whatever is in your backup archive. In this case, you
can place a parallel installation of Vista on your drive, as described in ???Fresh
install on a dirty drive??? in Chapter 1. Or, you can install a new drive, restore
your Complete PC backup onto it, and then hook up your old drive and
copy your recent data onto it. (The latter solution has the advantage of
allowing you to format or discard the damaged drive.)
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Pop quiz: how do you compromise your PC??™s security, stability, and performance
in about 10 seconds, without installing any new software? If you
guessed, ???sledgehammer,??? you??™re wrong??”that takes only two seconds.
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