Re: Motherboard upgrade--is XP Repair permanent?

Jonny wrote:
> The preferred method is a clean install of XP on an unpartitioned
> hard drive after a motherboard change.


Bruce Chambers wrote
> Preferred by whom? Please cite your source.

Jonny wrote:
> Myself. No garbage in the new (clean) install vice repair which
> will provide some amount of unused garbage.

Jonny,

Then you misspoke when you said "The preferred method.." - as that would
imply a consensus and you have just pointed out that it is *your* preference
to perform a clean installation instead of anything else when merely
changing motherboards.

I make no judgment on what *you* prefer to do - but implying that it is some
sort of standard must have been a mistake on your part. There is quite the
difference in "The preferred method..", "My preferred method.." and "A
preferred method..". =)

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