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What is needed to mess up an OS so badly that a reinstall fixes it?
by stinos 6y ago
What is needed to mess up an OS so badly that a reinstall fixes it?
- bombcar 6y agoBack then it was mainly driver issues - you could also boot safe mode and see it trying to load many various versions of a driver - usually the graphics driver. You could fix it by hand or you could do a fresh install - which would also wipe out any errant startup programs, etc.
- jonplackett 6y agoWith windows 98? So many reasons. Driver issues, viruses, just not starting and you aren’t sure why. Crashing and you aren’t sure why. Blue screen of death and you aren’t sure why. I genuinely still have my 25 digit windows 98 license key memorised from having to reinstall it so many times.