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On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 07:58:37 -0400, Hank©
wrote:

Rebuilding clears the registry and gets rid of other nasty boogers that
contaminate Windows.

That is true and I do it now and then but I want to do it on my
schedule, not at the whim of a bad hard drive.

Actually a better plan is to create a drive image of the machine when
it is running great and use that as a starting point.
I try to keep my C: pretty small so that image is a reasonable size,
spinning on my backup.
You can use a bootable CD to restore that from the backup.
I like Drive Wizard. (Used to be MaxBlast) As long as you have a
Seagate or Maxtor drive somewhere in the system it will run. It
doesn't even have to be a working drive, it just needs to report.

Forget about rebuilding just re-image.