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Question: When was the last time you reformatted your computer?
This month   -57 (18.9%)
Few months ago   -62 (20.6%)
Last year   -24 (8%)
Over a year ago   -37 (12.3%)
Never   -121 (40.2%)
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« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2009, 08:57:40 PM »
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Hard to say ....
It's an old school habit i never lost.

No school like the old school...and who knows how much headache and heartache you've dodged over the years?

Well, except for the headaches, here.    Wink 
(I include myself.)
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« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2009, 04:44:47 AM »
I've only ever reformatted once due to a problem with Windows Update. That's all.
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« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2009, 10:43:12 AM »
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« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2009, 12:49:28 PM »
Quote from: computeruler on July 03, 2009, 10:43:12 AM
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Are you trying to tell me something?
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« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2009, 12:52:30 PM »
Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on July 03, 2009, 12:49:28 PM
Are you trying to tell me something?

I'm with you on this one.
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« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2009, 05:38:54 PM »
I don't think my desktop has been formatted since it was upgraded just over a year ago.

My laptop was formatted (restored) as soon as I got it back home. See, often when you buy computers in Thailand, they immediately fill it with pirated software like Windows, Office, and just about everything else. While my laptop did come with an authentic version of Vista, they had stuck a bunch of other crap on it while they were "checking" it. Needless to say the system was all screwed up by the time I got it, so as soon as it was out of the box and powered on.
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« Reply #21 on: July 03, 2009, 06:55:28 PM »
I reformat one of my 2 computers at least every 3 months.

My Xp desktop normally 3 times a year.
I'm getting ready to do a reformat again soon.

And my other one....anywhere between 14 days to 2 months.
The shortest time for a reformat is about 3-4 days.
For example: I had XP Media edition in February. I reformatted to XP Pro for march. In early April i switched to Windows 2000. A week later i installed XP Pro alongside. Then in early June I reformatted again and installed Ubuntu Linux.

Quote from: patio on July 02, 2009, 06:38:31 PM
Hard to say ....
But i rarely see any performance hits on the benchtest machine and none of the 5 OS's even hiccups.
What are the "5 OS's"?
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« Reply #22 on: July 03, 2009, 08:03:15 PM »
DOS 6.2 Win98SE Win2K XP and Vista.
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« Reply #23 on: July 03, 2009, 08:05:42 PM »
We don't like ME, do we? Grin
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« Reply #24 on: July 03, 2009, 08:34:29 PM »
We like YOU a lot!  Windows Millenium was the only Windows version I actually uninstalled after just a month or so.
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« Reply #25 on: July 03, 2009, 08:35:55 PM »
I actually never touched it. I only heard, and read about it. It was enough "experience" for me Grin
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« Reply #26 on: July 04, 2009, 05:12:34 AM »
I didn't format out of choice.  My craptop went in for a video issue, I got a brand new craptop out of the deal, man, was I irritated...
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« Reply #27 on: July 04, 2009, 05:45:39 AM »
I resist doing it at all costs.  It's a living to reinstall all the apps and configure them again Sad  I believe this is by design by the demonseed that is M$!
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« Reply #28 on: July 04, 2009, 06:34:21 AM »
Quote from: Semysig on July 04, 2009, 05:45:39 AM
I resist doing it at all costs.  It's a living to reinstall all the apps and configure them again Sad  I believe this is by design by the demonseed that is M$!


You can use HD Imaging software (such as Acronis True Image) to take a picture of your hard drive and print it to the newly formatted hard drive, thus keeping everything you previously had.
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« Reply #29 on: July 04, 2009, 06:41:13 AM »
And then the point of formatting your drive would be ... what?
If you just go ahead and put exactly what was on it before, back on it, there's no difference, unless I'm missing something.
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