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Big Iron: System nuke disks



Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

-- Peter Rothman
(at Salon.com)

So, your computer has done something very, very, comprehensively, unquestionably bad. Unbootably bad. Now what? If you bought a system from HP or Dell or one of the other big players in the OEM PC market, you might be tempted to reach for the System Restore Disk (CD or DVD) that shipped with it to resurrect your moribund system.

A word of advice here: Don't.
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