Re: Windows XP corrupting HD - what is the solution?

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

Windows does not corrupt hard drives, as many tens of millions of users can
attest to. Users corrupt hard drives by installing incompatible
drivers/hardware, crap programs and utilities, allowing virus's, trojans,
spywear etc. on their computer.

Clean up your act and Windows will perform very well for you (at least up to
the potential of your hardware).

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew half as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Jonathan" <jonny_morrisuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:f6895097.0504041411.6e588c97@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi!
>
> I have read many posts about this problem, it would seem it is well
> known (and yet another indication of poor quality from Microsoft). I
> used my PC for over a year with Windows XP without a hitch, but only
> recently it started to give me the blue 'Windows has been stopped to
> protect your hardware' screen with various errors on it; recently I
> got sick of my PC crawling along because it was full of irremovable
> files and such, so I reformatted it and did a clean install of XP -
> big mistake! It repeatedly gave me the blue 'corrupt HD' screen, and
> I was all ready to dump my HD (as many other people have said) until I
> tried to install XP again, without installing anything else. Now it
> seems to work just fine, although I only did that today so there's
> still time.
>
> My question is this: what am I to do to fix it? Is there a website I
> should look at to find a list of updated drivers or whatever for my
> hardware for this shabbily written version of Windows? I am not going
> to buy new hardware as I know my existing hardware works just fine in
> it's own right.
>
> Thanks!


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