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Reinstallation of Windows the best solution?
I've had this computer since about July, and right away I had issues. It took a little over a month to realize the problem was a bad stick of RAM. I of course RMA the sticks and have not had a BSOD, or a majority of the other issues that were occurring since. However they're still some oddities. Every time I seem to d/l a file of a certain size I get disc volume errors which leads to Chkdsk whenever I reboot. Even though it does not find any errors, it does fix whatever set off the disc volume error message I received while running the maintenance task. Other issues include not being able to deleted certain files, and programs and not being able to update windows.
I know the problem isn't my HD, I've checked it multiple times and even though I've done repair/custom installs I've yet to complete reinstall windows completely. The repair installs have not fixed anything but I wonder if a complete reinstall is really any different. Also at this they're a a lot of files I want to save, and I wonder the best possible way to go about that as well as the whole process in general.
Though it isn't a huge problem, I think I've waited long enough to try this approach.