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Originally posted by Somebody1234@17 September 2003 - 21:28
If you're going to reinstall I suggest that you put at least 2 partitions. One for your 'system' (c:\), one for your 'data' (d:\), which would include e-mail, documents, music, images, downloads, shared files etc. Many programs let you define the default destination directory which you would point to that 'data' partition.
That way when you need to reinstall the system, only the system gets wiped. To reinstall an OS is not a big deal, it only takes ~45 minutes. If you do it that way you get to keep all your own files. As a bonus it's easier to do backups.
His past motherboard was fried, it might have effected the HD too.