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Originally Posted by chadman
I agree. I never understood why anyone would do this. So if I want to upgrade my computer from Vista to Windows 7, I should first reload XP, then load Windows 7? Just seems like a waste of time.
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I thought about this too myself. From my understanding, when a ROM is flashed, old data is completely wipped, and new data is written to the RAM. So, in theory it should not make a difference what data was there before. To a computer, deleted data is just sectors on the storage device that are free to use.
In the case of formatting a hard drive for a computer, it doesn't matter what was on there before. Data is data. When it comes down to the basics, it is all just a bunch of 1's and 0's.
The chance I can see for error would be the result of a bad flash. But this could happen if you did 100 stock reflashes. Maybe just a matter of chance?
I have never done the flash dance before and remain overall error free.
Please enlighten me if my knowledge is incorrect!
