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Question: When was the last time you reformatted your computer?
This month   -57 (18.9%)
Few months ago   -62 (20.5%)
Last year   -24 (7.9%)
Over a year ago   -37 (12.3%)
Never   -122 (40.4%)
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« on: July 01, 2009, 03:26:45 PM »
When was the last time you reformatted your computer?


For the month of July we thought it would be interesting to see when the last time you reformatted (erased your computer and started over) if ever. Feel free to comment about why you ended up having to do this, how long you troubleshot the computer before doing it, and/or how long it took you to get everything installed again.

All past monthly polls and results can also be found on the Computer Hope poll page.
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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2009, 04:23:23 PM »
I do it all the time just because I get bored with what is on my computer at the time.;
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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2009, 05:41:33 PM »
i cant remember 3-6 months ago
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« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2009, 09:00:21 PM »
Monthly...
Of course this requires regular backups and a decent imaging app.
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« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2009, 09:02:02 PM »
I think I last reformatted on April 20th 2009
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« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2009, 04:17:34 AM »
For this computer, it was a few weeks ago.
I moved to a new motherboard and case, then moved back to my old board, so I reformatted both times.  Also had to reformat again because I installed to the wrong drive - yeah, laugh it up, I was half asleep.  At least I didn't format my 1TB by mistake and lose all my important stuff, although that did nearly happen.
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« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2009, 08:02:01 AM »
Had to get mine reformatted a week ago(HD crash), after the repair the warranty was still good on the HD and they gave us a new one(with three times the capacity  ;D)
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« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2009, 08:55:21 AM »
Quote from: patio on July 01, 2009, 09:00:21 PM
Monthly...
Of course this requires regular backups and a decent imaging app.

This is probably a stupid question but what benefit do you get from re-formatting monthly?
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« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2009, 11:16:08 AM »
I was thinking that same stupid question, Patio.
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« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2009, 03:56:11 PM »
Reformatted just a couple of weeks ago, I tried XP 64 for a while but had to many issues so now I back to XP 32. I'm waiting for my copy of Windows 7 that I have already pre-ordered then I'll doing it again.  :)
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« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2009, 05:36:33 PM »
August 22nd.....not much longer.
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« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2009, 06:34:17 PM »
Win 2K old computer few years ago.
Win 98 computer, long time ago, I believe, twice.
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« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2009, 06:38:31 PM »
Quote from: Mulreay on July 02, 2009, 08:55:21 AM
This is probably a stupid question but what benefit do you get from re-formatting monthly?

Hard to say ....
It's an old school habit i never lost.

But i rarely see any performance hits on the benchtest machine and none of the 5 OS's even hiccups.
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« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2009, 06:40:25 PM »
Someone has a lot of free time on hand ;D
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« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2009, 07:09:44 PM »
Hay whatever floats ya boat!
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