Reformating

Drag_In_D-Flat7 · 09-17-2004, 08:49 AM

How many times a year do you guys reformat your hard drive??

I was told some people do it once every two months.

Lorand · 09-17-2004, 09:02 AM

I once managed to not formatting the hdd for 6 years and in the meantime I upgraded several times the hardware and the OS.
Until the hard disk's file system got very messed up and losed all of my data...

**Praetor** · 09-18-2004, 07:57 PM

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How many times a year do you guys reformat your hard drive??

About once a day from ghosting... once a week from manual formatting

Sebouh · 09-21-2004, 03:19 PM

Average of 1 per 2 months

d_stevens3 · 10-03-2004, 06:32 PM

why reformat unless something goes wrong, surely you should be able to keep your systems in shape for at least a year by defrag and other general cleanup procedures? i think once a week is just stupid and unecessary!

Mikelb · 10-05-2004, 09:19 PM

I have heard many a case where, low-level formatting kills the drive, so I believe it better to only format if necessary, keep upgrading the system, defragging it, and delete unnecessary junk... but formatting.... only when needed... it's like with paper and writing... you can only erase in one place so many times before the paper tears.... the platters won't tear or break... but the magnetic properties of them may become less stable...

**Praetor** · 10-07-2004, 03:39 PM

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why reformat unless something goes wrong

Because I can.

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surely you should be able to keep your systems in shape for at least a year

Yes but I change my OS multiple times a week. And multibooting is incredibly hdd inefficient

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by defrag and other general cleanup procedures

Ghosting and formatting can defrag faster than normal defraggin

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I have heard many a case where, low-level formatting kills the drive

Yeah well.... you're not supposed to low-format all the tiem

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09-17-2004, 09:02 AM	#2 (permalink)
Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 42 Posts: 3,042	I once managed to not formatting the hdd for 6 years and in the meantime I upgraded several times the hardware and the OS. Until the hard disk's file system got very messed up and losed all of my data...

10-03-2004, 06:32 PM	#5 (permalink)
d_stevens3 New Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 20	why reformat unless something goes wrong, surely you should be able to keep your systems in shape for at least a year by defrag and other general cleanup procedures? i think once a week is just stupid and unecessary!

10-05-2004, 09:19 PM	#6 (permalink)
Mikelb Bronze Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 25	I have heard many a case where, low-level formatting kills the drive, so I believe it better to only format if necessary, keep upgrading the system, defragging it, and delete unnecessary junk... but formatting.... only when needed... it's like with paper and writing... you can only erase in one place so many times before the paper tears.... the platters won't tear or break... but the magnetic properties of them may become less stable...