I've found over the years that partitioning your Windows drive is useful, when you want to upgrade - just low level format the partition. Also pain saving procedure is having a separate CD of all your drivers and inf files etc so when it goes looking for drivers, point it to the CD-ROM and away the installer goes. I've never experienced any problems doing it. Once every 8-12 months, I'll also low level format the disk because invariably there are going to be programmes that I tried and didn't like and the uninstaller didn't do a proper removal and there will be redundant keys floating around the registry and strings in .ini files - it just speeds things up a bit and is quicker than actually messing about trying to find all the items.
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