How many times a year do you reformat your computer?

**Canis Lupus** · 05-31-2002, 02:49 AM

Time for another poll

As I get ready to reformat my computer this weekend, after more than a year of not doing so, I thought about doing this poll.

So how many of ya are in love with the format c: command?

**Tweaker** · 05-31-2002, 02:56 AM

I try to stay away from doing it as much as possible.

As I found for me it done more harm than good.

**Shalome** · 05-31-2002, 03:15 AM

For me, reformatting is not something that I want to do unless my computer is so screwed up that it won't function properly.

**Outlaw** · 05-31-2002, 03:41 AM

I got Windows XP now so I'm going to format 4 or 5 times in a row pretty soon to make sure every last bit of it is gone forever

Normally I format several times a year cuz my windows just stops working properly after a certain period of time, especially when I install some weird programs (SoftIce

).

I'm gonna try to keep my next windows longer, though I don't know if it will work.

**Tecil** · 05-31-2002, 05:02 AM

When I ran win98 I would format about every 6 months. When I started using Win2k I never had to do a re-format for almost 2 years. Till I switched to XP Pro which has been running solid for me since. I made an image of this install, so if my computer ever flakes on me again I can format my drive and load up Image Center from a boot disk.

**justinious** · 05-31-2002, 08:22 AM

I try to only reformat 1 time a year. It was a big chore, until my friend gave me a Norton Ghost boot disk. Now I've got a clean ghost so it isn't such a chore. I love not having to reinstall and redownload SPacks from Winbloze.

post: Let me say that I only reformat my OS partition, I hardly touch my storage drives except to defrag.

**Null Actor** · 05-31-2002, 08:51 AM

I reformat so often, I have it down to a science. I format when I buy new hardware, have a harddrive die, or when windows is just feeling cluttered and slow.

Formatting for me nowadays only resuts in 2 hours of downtime, with a half hour of pre-format preparation. That's for a win2k install.

**Heathen** · 05-31-2002, 09:09 AM

Only when I REALLY have to. I'm running W2K and it runs great.

BUT - @ work I format at least 5-10 drives a week.

Ghost is a great thing

**Bobaroo** · 05-31-2002, 12:16 PM

I only format when my computer is scewed up and can not be fixed without formatting.

I would format a little more, but my dad does not want to lose everything on the computer.