OS Drive goes nuts... Windows 7 Rebuild under way.
So this morning after firing up the computer and freezing while trying to open a compressed file with Winrar. Like total hard lock freezing.
I rebooted and could not get past the Windows loading screen...
So I broke out a spare SSD drive that I ment to upgrade my OS drive to a couple of months ago...
And I'm doing a fresh install of the OS.
Windows 7 64bit Home Premium - Nothing fancy.
Old Drive was a Crucial M400 64GB, replacement is a PNY XLR8 128GB (about the same speed on read and write).
And I'm going ahead and doing a complete reinstall - vs - restore from a backup.
Con's:
Some icon's are lost and bookmarks have to be recreated.
Fucking Windows Update showed over 150 primary updates with another 50 or so secondary updates (thankfully I set it to manual pick and choose, cause I don't like Bing and some of other shit LittleLimp push's as an update).
Pro's:
Fresh Install of all software on the OS Drive.
So Windows, Antivirus, System Drivers, Firefox, Paint.net, Gimp, Pot Media Player 64, etc.
Note: Steam is installed on a second SSD (240GB PNY XLR8 currently) so all my games are un affected.
All of Unified UNP stuff (testing material, and what not) are located on a third 500GB spindle drive (along with the zip files of all the mods I use). So no problems there either.
Hell I don't even keep my movie or music stored on the OS drive. I only use it for the OS and base programs... which reminds me I gotta go download 7zip.
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