How many times have you formated your HD?


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  1. 1. How many?

    • 10 - 20
      48
    • 20 - 30
      13
    • 30 - 40
      11
    • 40 - 50
      9
    • 50 - 60
      2
    • 60 - 70
      1
    • 70 +
      36


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I format once every year roughly. Done it about 6 or 7 times to this PC.

Overall on all my PC's that I have had over the years (roughly 20) I have probably formatted them 100+ times between them.

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Lots and lots of times when I had windows 95/Me (shudder), but windows 98SE and XP were relatively kind to me...However, I've had probably 6 hard drives so far, so I'd have to say about 20 times overall but spread over a lot of hard drives.

I actually used to have a CD with the video drivers and winamp and thigns like that, so every time I reinstalled I could put them back on again...

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Are those who voted 70+ serious? Farout, what warrants that many reformats? :lol:

I guess, I just stick with one OS and make sure I look after it.

Either that or the thought of doing a reformat, reinstalling of everything, setting up everything again is to too much work :D

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Once, 2 yrs ago when I installed windows XP on this machine. Never needed to afterwards, no blue screens, no slow downs. I guess good maintenance has a lot going for it. I use this machine over 13 hrs a day, to do a lot of different things.

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My computer is most 24/7, so Windows XP just gets slower every day.

Miracly, this installation is lasting 2 months ( :huh: ), but normally I would format every week, or less.

When I had my old PIII I formatted it almost every 3-4 days. Start menu was 10ms laggier, so it need correction :woot:

(Over all my life, for me and for my friends I can safely say I passed 200 mark)

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you guys are seriously ****in nuts. how can you format so many times like that. what do you all do that you get your drive so corrupted like that.

i myself have had the same 7 partitions since i got this drive. over 2 years ago. its a 250 gig western digital, runs flawless. and i have

windows vista

Ubuntu Linux

windows xp pro sp2

windows xp MCE 2005 (the one i use most its on 24/7 recording and is my file and web server) current uptime 3 days, 3 hours :18 minutes :20 secs

and other partitons are for storage, ie. music, pictures and videos.

i do have a FRAGG partiton, which i store my virtual machines and pear pc. so those fragments dont bother me.

sounds like you guys need better management of your systems. or better drives.

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23 machines on my network, 18 are windows, 3 are linux, 2 are Mac. The Windows machines all get formatted every 3 months to keep them running smoothly. Linux and Mac machines get formatted when they need it, usually every 6-8 months depending on usage. In total, probably 70-80 formats a year. But I can format and configure a Windows machine in under 45 minutes now, so it's not too bad.

Peace,

Pete Zaria.

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about 50 times in the past year does anyone know if i will have to reformat mac os x regularly ? pm me if you know ??

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Any OS will need reformatting eventually. Anyone that's been running the same XP install for over a year, is loosing A LOT of performance, rather they know it or not.

As I said I format my Windoze machines every 3 months, and Mac/Linux boxes every 6-8 months. That's about right for me, but I probably put more stress on my computers than most people do. Basically, yeah, you'll need to format OSX now and then, but not half as much as XP. Hope that answers the question?

Peace,

Pete Zaria.

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I think this would make more relevance to add how long you have had the computer as well.

Desktop - We're looking at 4 times, had it for 3+ yrs now.

Notebok - 0, had it coming up to a year now.

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