Now that I say this, it's gonna be
the end of me, but my
Windows 98SE partition has never been
formatted in 3
years (this is through updates from 95-98-SE), even when I forgot that my peripherals may not work with my
overclocked cpu. Doh! I play with shit, I use
sound editing software,
programming stuff,
graphics programs. Oh, and I use
IE5.
Major hardware upgrades I've done without having to reinstall:
New motherboard, CPU.
New ATA/66 PCI interface.
New Video Card (GeForce)
3rd Hard Drive
All at the same time.
It's just a matter of patience, and actually taking the time to uninstall software properly.