I have an interesting story. In the course of testing software I have had to re-install XPpro/SP2 with IE7 several times.
I normally did this ny reformatting in full the drive & doing full re-installation. But I found that some software did not behave properly and occasionally XP would start up then half way through the start process the computer would quickly shutdown.
I used such as debug, last known good configuration, and safe mode and I couldn't resolve the problem.
In the back of my mind was a comment that a re-format might leave residual bits on the drive might corrupt some part of the installation.
So I used an eraser program (MicroScope Eraser Disk) to wipe my drive completely with a triple scan which took 4 hours to do!
I reformatted and re-installed XPpro/SP2 and 45 programs and now have no problems whatsoever.
Has anyone had similar problems?
I normally did this ny reformatting in full the drive & doing full re-installation. But I found that some software did not behave properly and occasionally XP would start up then half way through the start process the computer would quickly shutdown.
I used such as debug, last known good configuration, and safe mode and I couldn't resolve the problem.
In the back of my mind was a comment that a re-format might leave residual bits on the drive might corrupt some part of the installation.
So I used an eraser program (MicroScope Eraser Disk) to wipe my drive completely with a triple scan which took 4 hours to do!
I reformatted and re-installed XPpro/SP2 and 45 programs and now have no problems whatsoever.
Has anyone had similar problems?