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Eero R?nik wrote: I know that, but I assumed most people would check their hard drives or RAM for bad sectors/bytes before reinstalling or in case of problems.

I think you'd be surprised how many people just say "reformat & reinstall" in case of problems. The point with it is that it does work. That means that people will keep blaming the OS for it, while it can't help it.