Down to the bare metal

[Rock Steady]

Originally Posted by zippyt

Personaly , when i blank , reformat , and repartition a HD , I load windows , get that setup and stable , then load the newest version of Norton i can get my hands on , get that setup and stable , then start with all the updates , service packs , virious deffanitions , etc,,, then scan , scan , scan , test test test , benchmarks and all
THEN I load other software , and see how it is doing and Then tweek it to the way I like it ,

Yep, that's basically my routine too. Except, just before the "THEN", I do an explicit System-Restore SAVE and name it Stable-1 or something. Maybe do another S-R SAVE every 5-6 app installs.

Nothing like a clean system.