The cleansed feeling after a Windows Crash

[Hornin Hong Kong]

My main computer is a ferrari and with that you have to accept stability problems. Sometimes you just get the BSD and don't know why.

Well yesterday I got a weird boot error where the welcome to windows screen just froze. Repair console recovery was a no go.

With a sigh I reinstalled. But lo and behold I started to feel good for 2 reasons:

1) I totally got rid of all the **** that I had allowed on my main comp.
2) I had recently prudently moved all my porn from the 75GB raptor to the 500GB WD data disk.

Sure I lost a lot of installs but who cares - I realize im only really playing 2 games right now and all ther rest can just go.

Now the only things I have on my comp are:

1) XP SP2
2) Firefox
3) AVG Free
4) Mobo Drivers
5) Nvidia Drivers
6) Razer Ac-1 Driver
7) Copperhead Driver
8) G-15 Driver
9) Java and Flash
10) Crysis
11) Vanguard

12) A lot of Porn

Nothing else, nada.

As you might imagine everything is blazing fast and stable as hell O/C to the max.

I feel like I'v just moved and tossed out all my old junk.

Computers really get full of shite after a while.

 

[fratboy_legend]

i dont know what any of that means but thank god the porn is ok. that **** takes a while to track down.

legend out

 

[Hornin Hong Kong]

I was relieved some of those thing movies are old friends

 

[TexasDan]

While you have it at the bare minimum, you might want to capture an image of your drive, to re-image at a later date. Kind of like an external copy of a restore point.

Lots of third party software that enables this. Might be a good use of your 75gig that you are no longer using.

Just a thought.

 

[milk_monitor]

Ferraris don't run Windows.

 

[Kwisatz]

They do if you want to play Crysis.

 

[Stuck_At_Work]

I recently reformatted my 4 year old system.... and it is amazing how well it runs. It is like having a new computer.

People really underestimate the impact of the junk that self-installs from daily web surfing, etc.

 

[Uninformed]

What do you mean by faster? When you run the porn can't you just do it at 1.5 speed anyway?

 

[Hornin Hong Kong]

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[Anastasis]

need some nerd details. What kind of hardware you running, and your oc settings.

I try to do a clean install at least every year to keep things running crisp.

 

[Ignatius]

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[zork]

I thought my hard drive was toast and then I bought andran this :
The Link

I made the bootable cd and ran it twice correcting the bits by having them all flipped one way and then back the way they were supposed to be.

The non-bootable hard drive was saved! it recovered enough to allow winXP to fix enough clusters to boot and run long enough to have me copy off my data.

I then bought another hard drive to be sure it didn't happen again. OK, it cost me 89$ but I got my data. I was feeling a bit bummed after running it the first time and it still not booting. The second time, all night, was the charm for me.

 

[Hornin Hong Kong]

Some things I don't need on gaming PC

Chat progs (AIM seems to load a lot of crap)
Itunes
Gamespy Comrade
XFire
Divx

 

[EuroHorn]

I just had a mild XP crash on my Thinkpad. The ThinkVantage software with automatic backups and restore featiures saved the day/