sigh.... it's funny how people get a BSOD and they think the life of their PC is over....
I format once a week anyways....
that's why I have three harddrives,
two 10,000RPM WD Raptor's for windows and games, and the 250GB storage drive for the .ISO backups of my games, .ISO's of my operating systems, music, and everything else including all driver installs, a complete format+reinstall takes less then an hour to be back in full operation.....
I really should get around to making an image of my harddrive so it only takes about 20 minutes to format...