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Story: PC makers find ways to extend XP's life
Ah, but...
The problem I needed to recover from was a hard drive failure. Kind of difficult to use a recovery partition in a damaged hard drive to recover to a healthy new one! Doubly so when the PC you've got only has a single SATA connector so you can't put a second drive in internally. Happy happy joy joy for the external drive and screwdriver I had to hand...
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