Time for a reformat.

[jjyiz28]

i reformat my friends pc cuz he somehow always gets spyware, malware, maybe viruses, etc.. he never does windwos update when i tell him to, but at least now he runs zonealarm when he goes online.

but for my own pc, don't need to. it run fine like the first time i reformatted

 

[OZEE]

Originally posted by: amndouglas

Originally posted by: OZEE
I have *NEVER* reformatted. Never had a reason to - and I've been "doing" computers as a career for 15 years - online 10+ years.

So that i386 is still chugging along nicely.

Never said I've never FORMATTED -- just never REformatted... I've upgraded a harddrive recently - so that was a clean install. But prior to that, Win98SE had been running just fine for 4+ years. Same harddrive on three different mobo/cpu combos. And it dual booted Win98SE and Mandrake 9.

Work computer was upgraded from XPHome to XPPro for some COM/DCOM requirements, but other than that, it ran XPHome just fine for over a year and is about a year and a half on XPPro.

If you'll surf safely, watch what you install, and keep the junk cleaned up regularly, there's absolutely no reason to be doing these weekly/monthly reformats.

... I guess I just don't get it...

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: shminu

Originally posted by: Kenny1234

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
I sure hope I've got everything backed up. :beer:

- M4H

Midget pr0n: check

Donkey pr0n: check

Midget donkey pr0n: check


Commence reformat!!

yeah dolphin pr0n

stfu

n000000000bie fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!!!

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: rh71
Maybe people change hardware all the time, but it baffles me as to why you guys don't just GHOST a pristine image and just take the 10 minutes to throw that image onto C: everytime you need to "reformat".

Even if you did change hardware, it would recognize it on boot... plug and pray, remember ?

Reformating shouldn't be a chore... it's only 1 partition. After you install all your must-have proggies, Ghost it this time, ya Canuck.

Providing you haven't changed your IDE controller, (or in fact too much hardware) then yeah, that will be fine. Otherwise, you still have all the old crap there that it expects.


Though, saying that, the next time I have to format/reinstall, I'm gonna take a Ghost image to DVD (hopefully by the next time i need to format/reinstall i'll have a DVDRW drive )


Confused

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
About once a month

lots of time on your hands