I hope this wipes the smug grins off their faces!

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

All it takes is for a install to hang halfway through for whatever reason and your left with a paper weight instead of a hard drive.

If you are saying that an operating system upgrade caused your hard disk to fail completely, such that it could not be re-formatted, I would say that you should NOT be installing said software with a hammer.

The only ways to toast a hard disk (of ANY computer type) is to bang it particularly hard with a large phsyical object, or to pass a very powerful magnet near it (like one out of the monitor) or to turn it off whilst its firmware is being wiped. None of these happen during an operating system upgrade.

Although, if your comments were meant humourously, then haha, yes, you portrayed yourself sufficiently as someone that has no clue about PC hardware. I laugh at your portrayal of someone very stupid. Well done.