kem wrote:
> I guess so. I'm not sure. I was having problems and was told to
> reboot and I lost a lot of my information.
>
> I'm new to all of this so I don't really know

Reboot - turn off/on (sort of) -- usually takes less than 10 minutes.
Reinstall - to install the operating system again (sometimes all software,
etc) - would take significantly longer than 10 minutes.

Which was done?

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