HELP windows xp - profile corrupted

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    that's why you sould always lowlevel format your drive before installing anything.

    maxllf is a good utility for this. it's maxtors lowlevel format tool...

    after you lowlevel a drive it has to re-initialize, like it was brand new out of the box. it removes all of those pesky files that you thought were deleted.

    also don't upgrade....if you want a new os, back up your data and then go from scract - completely from scratc, fdisk, lowlevel, install...

    nearly all installations handle partitioning and formating during setup process now, so there isn't a need to do any of that before hand.

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