Poll: How often do you reformat?

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IJump

IJump

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Feb 12, 2001
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every 6 months or so, unless I royally screw something up.
 
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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
 
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Danman

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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. :p
 
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Scootin159

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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.
 
aphex

aphex

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



just you. :D j/k

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

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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.
 
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Thegonagle

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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.
 
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tigerbait

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every day

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:p
 
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trmiv

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Oct 10, 1999
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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.
 
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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

aphex

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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. >>



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

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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.
 
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CKDragon

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<< 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 :p Just friendly advice :D



<< 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
 
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