I swear, ya just can't use factory partitions or disks that came with your computer to format it.
I wiped my school laptop using the original Toshiba disk only 4 months ago and I need to format it AGAIN! It lasted a year before that. Using the original disk puts all that trailware crap. You can uninstall it, but it's just never the same as a retail install.
Problems creep up that just don't exist with retail versions. The friggin CD/DVD drive isn't showing up anymore for some reason, it's slower than crap at startup (about 6 full minutes!), and overall performance is sluggish at best. I have 4 other laptops here that I put retail installs on over a year ago and they're all fine! On top of that, I actually USE those laptops! I don't do ANYTHING with my school laptop but type crap up in Word and use Photoshop now and again. It can't even do that now. Seriously people, use the disks I have on my server if you want to format your computer. OEM Software and OS's SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Sorry about the rant, but it's just been frustrating these past few days. One of my hard drives on my personal server crashed and I lost nearly 300gb of data. I pay so much money for SCSI drives because of their dependability....then this happens! SCSI is about $1 a gig, so that's $300 down the toilet! On top of that, my master machine got a TERRIBLE case of malware and I had to do a format, which took 5 hours because like an idiot, I accidentally installed Vista x32. I only noticed it when I looked and it said I only had 4gb of ram when I really had 6gb.
