NightmarE D Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 70 +in a quauter of year (3months) cannot make up my mind what appz to use Same here. Except I dual boot and can't decide between what OSes to use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Veteran Posted September 3, 2005 Veteran Share Posted September 3, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE BAT Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 may be around 50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambivalancer Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starforge Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caerma Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 lost count. over the time x00+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudyJ Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OxideNOS Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 I do it almost every 2 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amrinders87 Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 Probably in the 20-30 range Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slow Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Is there an option for NEVER! lol seriously i've never formatted so now i don't know how to. *blush* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerone Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sachleen Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Just a while ago, when my bro built his comp and i got his old one, i stopped reformatting every other day and installing a new OS..... 2k to xp to 2k3 and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eminem213486 Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosidius Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 20-30 times to try Linux Distros out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis.A Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 About 160 times I think.... XP always gets slow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 none :s ? just first installed windows and haven't felt any performance downgrade after 2-3 years :| no need for it imo Victor Rambo 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blush Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Is there an option for NEVER! lol seriously i've never formatted so now i don't know how to. *blush* 586476578[/snapback] Same here. :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 70+ You're missing a 0-9 option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixilEyes Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 I lost my cd key, so I cant reformat. :( Its been about 2 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Zaria Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogosama Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 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 ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Zaria Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 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 ?? 586479348[/snapback] 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahmi_r Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 wow. over 70 sounds so wrong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Allen Veteran Posted September 5, 2005 Veteran Share Posted September 5, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mx Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 My current raptors twice. But previous system around 30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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