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Interesting post.
I had a problem with my Old PC where my Maxtor hard drive appeared to be corrupt one day and not the next eventually it just wouldnt load windows so I reinstalled XP twice with SP2 and the same thing happened again. I ran the Maxtor harddrive utility and it found one corrupt file and said it could fix it. I then installed another Maxtor hard disk giving up on the original one and installed XP > upgraded it to SP2 and 3 weeks later with this HDD the same thing started to happen. I just thought I had a bad batch of HDD's (these were 3yr old maxtor models), since then ive upgraded to SATA and not had any problems. I was able to read the data from my old hard drives no problem.
I never suspected SP2 as the fault, mainly because I haddnt seen a similar fault out in the field.
Another note about the security change, when a computer is full of Spyware before it has SP2 and then is upgraded without removing the spyware it will fail to boot. I dont know whether there is a link there or not.
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