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Windows ate my desktop. After the 3rd time someone asked me a question about Vista, I figured I had to add it to my knowledge base. Talked my favorite retailer into a free copy, he knows I butter his bread & why, & installed it. Now, my basic computer is only 3 years old & was rated as second best @ that time. I'll admit that some of the inner components, TV card & video cards are 10 & 8 years old respectively, but they worked fine with XP Pro.

Before I even got to tell it where the drivers were Vista crashed due to a fatal hardware error. Which would normally not be a problem, boot up in safe mode install the drivers go back & install. Wrong. Once Vista starts installing you can't do anything else. You can't go back & cancel the process, you're stuck in a loop. System crashing because of hardware drive error. No way out.

As a parting shot, when I attempted to re-install XP Pro the computer took a swan dive jumbling the boot sector of the hard drive and wiping the bios off the motherboard. Left me with a doorstop.

So I'm back to my 90's era laptop with a double boot linux (original system) & windows 2000 Pro (it was free & it works) which is good for watching and writing, but editing videos? No way!

Now, into the circle file.