Motherboard upgrade--is XP Repair permanent?

[Rock]

Ron Martell wrote:





No surprise there. It's Andrew E you're replying to. Balderdash, Hogwash,
and Malarkey are his specialties.

lol

 

[Jonny]

Preferred by whom? Please cite your source.

Myself. No garbage in the new (clean) install vice repair which will
provide some amount of unused garbage.

And this is a proven technique, backed up by years of experience.

And your years of experience means nothing if you have not evaluated a clean
and repair installs side by side on the same PC. And you didn't attack the
"desired method" commentary, interesting. So, apparently you agree with it.
Yet, I provide no source. Interesting, and maybe a bit two-faced...

 

[Shenan Stanley]

The preferred method is a clean install of XP on an unpartitioned
hard drive after a motherboard change.

Bruce Chambers wrote

Preferred by whom? Please cite your source.

Myself. No garbage in the new (clean) install vice repair which
will provide some amount of unused garbage.

Jonny,

Then you misspoke when you said "The preferred method.." - as that would
imply a consensus and you have just pointed out that it is *your* preference
to perform a clean installation instead of anything else when merely
changing motherboards.

I make no judgment on what *you* prefer to do - but implying that it is some
sort of standard must have been a mistake on your part. There is quite the
difference in "The preferred method..", "My preferred method.." and "A
preferred method..". =)

 

[Steve N.]

Ron Martell wrote:





No surprise there. It's Andrew E you're replying to. Balderdash, Hogwash,
and Malarkey are his specialties.

LOL! You forgot horsepucky.

Steve N.