>>Right on the target: The explanation on the checkbox is as follows:
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>>"This setting enables write caching to improve disk performance, but a power outage or equipment failure might result in data loss or corruption."
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>>Why is this checked by default in XP, I would not know.
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>Surely for performance. For example, with an UPS, you should rarely have problems with power outages.
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>>"Soy de los Andes?"
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>Who, me? I was born in Germany, am a citizen of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and live in Bolivia almost all my life.

Then you must have lived in the Netherlands Antilles?