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That's what I did, now shy of 20yrs later, I'm thankful for it as it was a great door to an ending era of computer fluency and troubleshooting/learning.

Nowadays, it's different. Less poking and proding in an OS and that is sad.

Yep. About once a month after I broke something badly or got malware for the millionth time. Shoutout to my friend's dad who worked in IT and gave me their WinXP corporate serial number so I could reinstall without having to phone Microsoft! Still have it memorized to this day.

Yup. I was wiping and reinstalling my PC by age 10 or 11.