• oozynozh@sh.itjust.works
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    1. boot something like Hirenz via USB
    2. mount the device Windows MBR maps as C:
    3. extract the rarball onto the mount point
    4. reboot
    5. learn not to dumbass, dumbass
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      21 minutes ago

      Does winrar store ntfs attributes and security settings? If not, then simply uncompressing the files to their original location may not result in a working OS, especially if the registry wasn’t backed up because winrar couldn’t access it

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      I think what’s funniest to me is he was very close to recreating a real windows feature. You actually can “compress files to save space” under options, and apply it to all child files and folders. This is not the way to do it though lmao

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        Of course any disk space you save by doing that is exchanged for performance and time.