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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Everything bad I have ever done or said or thought has just come back and bit me in the BUTT!!!
Laptop is with computer guy.
Corrupted something, couldn't download updates now its toast, and he has to wipe the hd and reinstall os.
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I know, it's after the fact, but it's something to think about when your laptop gets reinstalled. Split your HD in two (aka, make two partitions). I learned that the hard way, way back when (I believe it was my 486), when I wanted to re-install windows and it had formatted my C-drive without me realising it. And when I did realise it, it was too late and I had lost all my data (which included a homework assignment...). Since then, I've always created two partitions. One for my OS and other applications, and one for my documents. Now, I only look at the C drive if I want to back up some settings. All other stuff that I want to keep, is on another partition. If my windows would crash, I can just re-install without much loss (though I might have to find some passwords and such, but that's it) (naturally, that's on my laptop, as my home pc has three HD's...)