http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/11/19/refresh_2D00_your_2D00_pc_2D00_save_2D00_your_2D00_bacon.aspxThursday morning I did something to my main laptop that I really should not have done, and the results were disastrous.&#160; I succeeded in completely wrecking my installation of Windows 8 .&#160; I was able to boot into the OS , but as soon as I trieden-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/11/19/refresh_2D00_your_2D00_pc_2D00_save_2D00_your_2D00_bacon.aspx#3533942Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:32:23 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3533942Mitch.Garvis<p>Sorry Dave... I had already corrected the typo ;)</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3533942" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/11/19/refresh_2D00_your_2D00_pc_2D00_save_2D00_your_2D00_bacon.aspx#3533857Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:00:23 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3533857Dave2U<p>Okay, Ed, where&#39;s the typo? &nbsp;I could only spot punctuation errors, like missing commas before and after &quot;most people agree.&quot; &nbsp;I suppose one could take Mitch to task for using &quot;was&quot; instead of &quot;is&quot; in reference to the stability of the Windows 7 OS, but isn&#39;t that getting a bit picky - almost as much as my pointing out missing commas! ;-) </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3533857" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/11/19/refresh_2D00_your_2D00_pc_2D00_save_2D00_your_2D00_bacon.aspx#3533756Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:02:54 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3533756Mitch.Garvis<p>Ed I do indeed feel like a tart when I am caught making silly mistakes :) You are right, all patching has to be re-applied... still and all a small price to pay when you consider that had I had to re-install I would have had to do the same thing anyways :) -MDG</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3533756" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/11/19/refresh_2D00_your_2D00_pc_2D00_save_2D00_your_2D00_bacon.aspx#3533751Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:49:16 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3533751Ed<p>Security updates will have to be re-installed. Fine now but in the years after the last service pack, it could be nasty.</p> <p>BTW, typo in second line of second paragraph [see if you can find it...].</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3533751" width="1" height="1">