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How Many times you format your PC
This is a discussion on How Many times you format your PC within the Computer Security forums, part of the Computer technology category; Simple..how many times ? Since Windows 7, its Once in last 6 months that too because of my mistake. When ...
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10-07-09, 01:46 PM
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| Gold Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Dombivi Age: 25
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Rep Power: 2  |  How Many times you format your PC Simple..how many times ? Since Windows 7, its Once in last 6 months that too because of my mistake. When i was using XP which lacks robust security as Windows 7 has, i used to format atleast once a month. |
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10-07-09, 02:35 PM
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Rep Power: 1 | Last time, after 3 months. My hard disc has some bad sectors. May be because of that. |
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10-07-09, 03:14 PM
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Rep Power: 1 | I regularly format & reinstall windows at once a month... Because some software are trial versions... & their crack are hard to find... |
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10-07-09, 03:16 PM
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Rep Power: 3 | it depends on my mood. sometimes i format 2 times in a month.but sometimes i don't format for long. |
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10-07-09, 03:34 PM
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10-07-09, 05:07 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | Its almost a year now since i last formatted my PC. For the last year i am using windows vista with regular updates and its really stable so i didn't find any reason to format. |
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10-07-09, 11:54 PM
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Rep Power: 1 | I think i formated thrice in 1 n half year.. So an avg. of once/half yr.. offtopic: Is it possible to eliminate/correct bad sectors by formatting..? |
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10-08-09, 01:48 PM
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10-08-09, 04:08 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | i dont exactly remember when i have formatted my machine, might be 9 -10 months before . Does frequently formatting affects the performance of the harddisk/ pendrives ?. |
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10-08-09, 04:20 PM
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Rep Power: 6 | I used to re-install Windows XP 3-5 times a month. The reason is mostly because I try installing some Linux distros and always causes problem when uninstalling. Now I use Virtualbox for that. |
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10-09-09, 10:34 AM
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10-09-09, 12:21 PM
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10-09-09, 01:01 PM
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Rep Power: 1 | Hi guys  hey....here is the amazing way to keep away Total formatting of pc, except nasty hardware problems and this is The Greatest Solution for all "most of the emergency problems"...... simply install the operating system ..... as an addition... on your other drive ......called as multi-booting system which is very easy,very usual & incredibly useful. It means installing operating system again but on ur other drive so that in emergency ,you can simply shift to the other operating system on ur Hard Disk and can solve the issues OR can so easily & so quickly format the infected Operating System-Drive  Last edited by rahul19ie; 10-09-09 at 01:18 PM. |
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10-09-09, 01:02 PM
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| Platinum Member  | I format my PC only when absolutely necessary. I have done this 5 times in the last 6 years: 1. First time - upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 2. Reformatted because of various issues (Win 2000) 3. Upgraded to Win XP/Pro 4. Purchased licensed copy of XP (eight months later) 5. Reformatted because of various issues (XP/Pro)
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10-09-09, 06:55 PM
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10-09-09, 07:22 PM
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Does it mean that installing a new copy of OS ? Because that happens once in a month or may be twice. If you mean ,formatting a normal drive, there is no specific pattern, depends upon the requirement. I started a similar kind of thread on IBB some months ago about the frequency of OS installation. | |
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