content: I have to admit that back in '96 I reinstalled Linux several times because I broke things through my ignorance, trying to fit it all into 1Gb of a 2Gb drive.  Once I got past that stage (and had bigger hard drives) I regularly "reinstalled" Windows 98 from a file on Linux because it'd break every 2-3 months to where it couldn't even render a font correctly.  I admit Windows 2000 and above are better, I've only had to reinstall Win7 off the restore partition 5 times now, last time about 5 weeks ago when installing a MS SDK broke Visual Studio beyond repair.