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    I went from BSOD'ing 20x a week to never BSOD'ing again....

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Blue Diamond, Jan 7, 2009.

  1. Blue Diamond

    Blue Diamond Notebook Evangelist

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    wanna know the secret? reformat using the factory partition... then uncheck all the bloatware you don't want installed, voila! 3 weeks and not 1 BSOD yet.... lovely.... one question though... does the factory install automatically reformat the hard drive for you? or just reinstall the OS and thats it?
     
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    It wipes everything off of your main partition and uses an image from a separate hidden partition to factory install your system.
     
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  3. Renee

    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    You did rewrite everything, no?

    Renee
     
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    My fix, was to uninstall AVG...
     
    joer80, Jan 7, 2009
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    Thats what I thought, the answer was 'yes'.
     
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  6. Blue Diamond

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    what do you mean i rewrote everything?
     
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    i was wondering if it actually reformats the hard drive before installing windows
     
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    wait, that was stupid. now that i think about it, there is no way that i can reformat without having to delete the restore partition either... hmm.... doesn't that mean that the hard drive will never be at 100% performance? since a reformat cleans out the hard drive?
     
    Blue Diamond, Jan 7, 2009
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  9. miro_gt

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    lol, you're like saying that "format C:" is the sollution for BSODs

    .. cause some of us search, find, and solve the problem that causes BSOD

    I haven't seen BSOD since .. I don't remember when.

    cheers
     
    miro_gt, Jan 7, 2009
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  10. drjohn

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    Now you've done it. Tick, tick, tick...
     
    drjohn, Jan 7, 2009
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