New hard drive for a slowing computer

mr_simon

mr_simon

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I have had my current PC now for a couple of years, and I use it very frequently. I have replaced the processor once and the graphics card 3 times to keep it up to date hardware wise.

Recently though over the last few months, its been driving me mad. So many blue screens, games crashing, 5 minute boot ups, just general rubbishness. I know this is probably because my hard drive is jammed up with rubbish (including Vista :rolleyes:) and I was wondering if this would work: Backing up any thing I need onto my external drive and just getting a new hard drive, putting a fresh install of Vista on it (I have the CD retail version) and just starting from scratch in this way. The hardware is not the problem, I am sure of that, its just the hard drive is full of crap and the computer is driving me mental!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
 
Yes, you should reinstall Windows from time to time.

Some people do it several times a year.

I don't think a new hard drive would be necessary, unless the one you have
is slow, like a 5400rpm drive.
 
No its not a slow hard drive, but its only 160GB, and I could do with a 500GB one.

Excuse my ignorance, but is there a way to reinstall Windows so it goes back to a brand new state, ie nothing but the OS on the drive?
 
Ah thanks for the replys. I think I will just go with a new hard drive, that way I have the original just in case and I can get a larger size.

Cheers All
 
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