Quote Originally Posted by Conan
Actually this should be the very 1st step after a reformat.
Absolutely Correct, it's worse on my main comp with a VIA North/South bridge, without the chipset drivers i cant do any file transfer without getting corrupted files - VIA+Creative+ATI+AMD - didnt mix well in the early days.

But it is important to write the steps down when doing a reformat install, sort of like a checklist. Makes it easy to remember what to install next and in what order