Finally, after 2 years, 2 months and 19 days since I first bought this PC and installed the system, I finally replaced the hard disk and reinstalled Windows XP to it. This is the longest ever time frame I have for using a computer that I own without having to reformat and reinstall the system.

Decided to replace the hard disk as my system had been showing symptoms of corrupted files, etc. And since many hard disks today rarely last more than 3 years (perhaps) due to wear and tear, I decided to change it instead of just reformatting and reinstall.

Supposed to get an 80GB Maxtor with 8MB cache but it is not widely available anymore, besides one store is selling at exorbidantly high. Finally, settled for Western Digital of the same size and cache for RM168.