IrcSystmzz Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 I lost my cd key, so I cant reformat. :( Its been about 2 years now. 586478075[/snapback] Try Lavalys Everest Home Edition It will show you your xp serial :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanstein Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 I would have to file mine in "umpteenmillion times". There was only a 70+ option, so I went with that. Of course, this is over my entire computing carreer. It also includes the computer that had the following problems: - Floppy virii - way back before email virii - Bad ram sticks - yes, that is plural - The arm jumped and broke through the platter - that caused a nice sound - A really weird worm that caused the icons to jump around by themselves - you couldn't click on them because they kept moving - Failed installations of Caldera Linux - yes, the olden days - Replaced with Red Hat - not really a problem, but required a format And all of those were just off the top of my head on one computer. I still have it on a shelf in my closet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theyarecomingforyou Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 So many times... I've been reformating since Win95, though I tend to only delete and recreate one partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EaglePC Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 A Happy XP Home or Pro Guide... 1.) start with a clean pc (hard drive fresh) find a killdisk program google. only start with 1 hard drive , 1 cdrom or dvd .videocard ,no modem,sound card or etc. off course as allways turn that network card off or remove it. 2.) install xp,reboot ,1st thing first chipset drivers ,reboot video drivers reboot now clean temo dir including (doccuments and setting /user/local/temp) setup xp interface how you like to use it,then update xo winupdate. anyone like me to finish this guide let me know this is thru my own experience and lots of web reading:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[DGS] Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 It would be easier for me to answer "how many times i d-clicked with my mouse" than to answer "how many times i formatted" LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I have had a lot of hard drives over the years. I have had many partitions and OS's installed. Right now I have Kubuntu Hoary Kubuntu Breezy Suse 9.3 Redhat 6.2 Windows XP Windows Vista beta 1 on this computer. I'm always installing OS's and messing around with them. I've got 2 250 gig disks now, so I'm going to be experimenting even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bush Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 well.. only when i bought it. and then few times formatting windows partition, so it can't count as formatting the whole drive :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfoos Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Loads of times. I've never bothered counting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 10 - 20 i used to format every 3 months or so, but now i'm good at maintaining my pc.. i only format what something gets REALLY screwed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remix17 Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Way too many times. One I did it 5 times in one day. Haven't done it in a while since I discovered disk imaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sicburns Posted September 9, 2005 Author Share Posted September 9, 2005 Well i formated my new PC about 15 times this months. Just checking out the best OS and so on. Now iam running Xandros, but iam switching to XP tommorow orso. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo11883 Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I can't remember... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadian397 Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I've formated my computer (Hp Pavilion 761n from 2002) about 10-20 times. Ya, used to format every 3 months but then I figured out just last year why my computer was always screwing up. It turns out my Wacom Tablet's drivers kept screwing my computer up so I got rid of the tablet (It's actually in a box somewhere in my basement) and my computer's been running flawlessly for just about a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odious_m Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Only one format per HD. I use Norton Ghost if I ever need to restore an image to a drive. Really can't believe you ppl still reformat. Don't you have anything better to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spvath Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 In my "try as many distros as possible" phase...I formatted my laptop probably 30 times....but my main PC only about 4 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted September 10, 2005 Veteran Share Posted September 10, 2005 Only one format per HD.I use Norton Ghost if I ever need to restore an image to a drive. Really can't believe you ppl still reformat. Don't you have anything better to do? 586501713[/snapback] There isn't much difference between a format and a re-write of an entire partition... :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 For my current hard drives: 1 time when I installed win98 back then on a k6-II (I'm still using that HD). 1 time when I installed winxp some years latter (actually just resized the existing partition and added a 3GB one for xp). 1 time when I installed Mandrake8.2 (on a new drive). 1 time when I installed RedHat9 (over the Mandrake partition). 1 time when I installed Gentoo (over the RedHat partition) 1 time when I splitted my fat32 partion in two ReiserFS partitions in order to get more space for linux. That makes 6 times, doesn't it? I've never formated any partition/HD just to install the same old stuff again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacidz Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Over 20times at least. When younger, used to reformat every 2 weeks without fail. Tweaking and experimenting did that. Now, i use ghost, original install was 29 Dec 2004, used ghost bout 3 times on this due to tweaking/bad bad drivers etc. So yeh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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