[Play_The_0dds]

the reason people, even very knowledgeable people suggest repair/reformat is with windows so many things can be the cause of the same problem, the one originally posted is software, not hardware, you could spend days,weeks,months, even years trying to figure this out, and even if you stop the error message, you may not have fixed the entire problem. many people post here how slow their pc has become, but they "removed the virus" or "uninstalled the program" either way, damage was done, just because a virus was removed doesn't mean it repaired all the damaged files. microsoft should make its programming code at least a little "open" just for diagnostic purposes, but we bought the systems, we must live with the beast. the reason the repair option is on the install disk is so you dont have to spend a lot of time on a pointless quest. system restore (which very rarely helps) is another attempt by microsoft to give you a fix . just a question: How many people have got their computer back from a shop, formated and reinstalled, not fixed, they just dumped your stuff and reinstalled? and you paid quite a bit to have your stuff lost.