Q on formatting, ghosting

[Rebel7254]

I'm going to have my PC formatted Tuesday. It's really slowing down on me and the internet stopped working on it. Anyway, I was planning on having the guys ghost the hard drive, but will that make duplicate directories or anything? Is it best to do a fresh install without ghosting? Because I really want everything fresh, but I dunno if ghosting my HD will mess that up.

Thx.

 

[KnS]

Ghosting your HDD will make a copy of your HDD. So if your having software problems now then formatting and then ghosting it with the old image wont help. You'll still be in the same situation your in now. Plus every time you format a drive the drives performace decreases. It's mini but it does happen. Best bet reinstall clean.

 

[Nighthawk69]

Start clean. Ghosting a broken system is counterproductive

 

[Nothinman]

Plus every time you format a drive the drives performace decreases

That's not true. Formatting a partition is the same as regular disk access so if that were true drives would slow to a halt and not be usable for very long.

 

[Rebel7254]

Yeah, that makes sense to me. I would really just be reinstalling all my problems again. Thanks guys. I'll back up my valuable stuff on CD and go clean.

Thanks for the info.

 

[bsobel]

Plus every time you format a drive the drives performace decreases

I cant' wait to see your basis for this little tidbit...
Bill

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: KnS
Plus every time you format a drive the drives performace decreases.

Low-level formatting via disk utilities, perhaps? But not a regular format, for sure...

 

[Budman]

Plus every time you format a drive the drives performace decreases.

LMAO !! Now that was funny,thanks for the laugh KnS.

 

[Rebel7254]

Well that probably won't matter anyway. I'm going to have a new 7200 RPM drive put on it if they got one at the office.

 

[Blain]

Do both drives involved in the ghosting have to be the same size?

 

[skyking]

Blain: Nope. All you need is enough room on the target drive for the information you want to ghost over. It is a sweet deal

LMAO !! Now that was funny,thanks for the laugh KnS.

Ditto!

 

[Jeff H]

Rebel7254, as some of the other guys said, Ghosting your current drive setup will simply create a mirror of the problems you're having. I'd suggest you back up your important data/files and then do a clean install. Once you get your new install up and running then do a Ghost of the install. That way next time you need to do a reformat/install you're ahead of the game w/ your Ghost discs.

 

[Rebel7254]

That's a damn good idea Jeff. I dunno if we'll have time to do that tomorrow, but I'll see. I've already got everything I want to back up on CD so I'm ready to go. Thanks again.