Reply to Re: Reinstalling Windows
If you don't have an account, just leave the password field blank.
The beta stuff you named will never ever corrupt your hard disk. what bad stuff you do with your computer and if the hard disk still works fine are two seperate things. The registry is just data, it doesn't fiddle with your file systems. Virtual PCs usually reserve a special file for all virtual data so it can't get corrupt. Etcetera.
Your hard disk was likely just dying.
Your hard disk was likely just dying.
