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My computer is about to kick the can, at least I think it is. However, as far as computing capacity goes, it theoretically still has all I need as I don’t do much more than browsing, a couple games, and run a jukebox out of it. I got it 5 summers ago, before leaving for college, and it was top of the line, 2.33 GHz Pentium 4, 512 mbs of DDR Ram, a more than adequate sound and video card, my monitor is great, speakers are perfect. Basically, I am trying to avoid buying a completely new computer, and I am hoping that the only problem that is truly an issue is that my hard drive has essentially been turned on for 5 straight years, subjected to heavily downloading, and recently, because of negligence, come under attack from adware and spyware, with a couple viruses thrown into the cocktail for good measure I’m sure.
Do you think that scrapping my current hard drive and simply replacing it with a new one would essentially press the proverbial reset button on my computer and everything else will go back to normal? Search times are horrible, multitasking is virtually impossible now, and I don’t suspect it is because of RAM issues but that my hard drive is just fried. I am trying to avoid going the Apple route, but fear if I do need a new one, I will have to switch over to the dark side. How hard is it to reload XP onto a completely fresh hard drive? thanks in advance.
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