Poll: How often do you reformat?

[hopeless879]

How often do you reformat your harddrive?

For me about every 3 months.

 

[minendo]

Havent done it in over a year.

 

[bandXtrb]

Something happens sooner or later.

 

[Maleficus]

mines more along 1-2

 

[IJump]

every 6 months or so, unless I royally screw something up.

 

[Superwormy]

when my computer needs it.

 

[Rallispec]

<< every 6 months or so, unless I royally screw something up. >>




i royally screw things up about every 6 months on my main computer

 

[Danman]

Well my hard drive has been going a-wall every 3 months in a continous pattern so I would have to say every 2 to 3 months.

 

[Scootin159]

I think this is my current record - haven't reformatted since 12/18/01. I hope to make it to the end of the semester, but now my camera is crapping out on me. If I can get this GeForce 4 Ti 4600 from BestBuy (Yes I'm still trying on that & have a raincheck & manager aproval to get one when it comes in stock), I'm going to reformat then.

 

[Smacksmackums]

I don't have a religious type of schedule or anything, but I reformat more or less every six months.

 

[areohbe]

is it just me or are the poll results giving everyone the finger

 

[aphex]

<< is it just me or are the poll results giving everyone the finger >>



just you. j/k

Speakin of formatting, i think its time... Fare thee well.

 

[CStroman]

I'm overdue for a reformat. I think I'll just buy a new hard drive, and use the 20 gig from this machine to build a Linux box.

 

[Thegonagle]

Used to be every 6 months. Now, with Windows 2000, I haven't in, oh, perhaps a year and a half. It's due, but I might install XP, and I want to buy a larger HD, and possibly a new motherboard/processor/RAM, so for now, I'm just being lazy.

 

[tigerbait]

every day

 

[trmiv]

Rarely. I used to do it a bit with Windows 95/98, but with Windows 2000, and now Windows XP pro, I don't reformat for the sake of reformatting at all. If something goes wrong, I will of course.

 

[jpsj82]

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<< every 6 months or so, unless I royally screw something up. >>



i royally screw things up about every 6 months on my main computer >>

same with me.

 

[aphex]

<<

<<

<< every 6 months or so, unless I royally screw something up. >>



i royally screw things up about every 6 months on my main computer >>

same with me. >>



same here, cept it usually 4-5 months for me.

 

[Vadatajs]

Too often, about every 6 months.

 

[Kelvrick]

I'll screw up something important and irrepairable sooner or later.

 

[DanFungus]

I formatted today.....

 

[Geekbabe]

"How often do you reformat your harddrive?"

Depends on how often I screw up stuff

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Wow, what's with you people? I haven't formatted this one since I installed Windows 95 OSR 2.5, I didn't even format when upgrading to Win2k.

How do you manage to screw things up so royally that you need to reformat? I've never seen a problem that bad that wasn't hardware related...and if it's hardware related, a format isn't going to help anyway.

 

[ViperVin2]

2-3 months or when im bored

 

[CKDragon]

<< Wow, what's with you people? I haven't formatted this one since I installed Windows 95 OSR 2.5, I didn't even format when upgrading to Win2k.

How do you manage to screw things up so royally that you need to reformat? I've never seen a problem that bad that wasn't hardware related...and if it's hardware related, a format isn't going to help anyway. >>



Wow, you should format, I bet you'd see a difference in performance. Is this also to say that you didn't convert your file system to NTFS over FAT32 when going to Win2k? That should be a crime Just friendly advice



<< Used to be every 6 months. Now, with Windows 2000, I haven't in, oh, perhaps a year and a half. It's due, but I might install XP, and I want to buy a larger HD, and possibly a new motherboard/processor/RAM, so for now, I'm just being lazy. >>



I installed XP just after Christmas, and within a few weeks I'm going to format and go back to Win2k. My advice is to not install XP, but you'll find a hundred differing opnions on that.

CK