how often do u usually reformat ur machine/reinstall your os…

my Tr’s getting slow. i havn’t done any re-installing since january when i got it (not even get rid of hidden partition :oops: )...

i reinstalled and reformatted my desktop every year.

ÃŽ do each of my machines 2 or 3 times a year.

I reformat mine whenever it starts misbehaving like blue screen’s or long loading times…once I even had the problem where the desktop would appear but the icons wouldn’t :?

I think I’ll need to reformat my TR soon since I’ve been having a problem of the disappearing cursor for some time now (I have mentioned it earlier…sometimes when I restart my TR the cursor would disappear when above the power panel dialog box or also the turn off optical drive message box, while at other times it would be visible over both of these boxes. The former happens more often though :( )

used to do it 2 to 3 times… a month...  :evil:  now about once every 2 months… thats on my S… 

I might be in the minority here, but I avoid reformatting unless I have no other choice. Usually moving hard drives (or machines) or serious operating system corruption are the only things that would make me reformat.

[quote author=“Rahul”]I reformat mine whenever it starts misbehaving like blue screen’s or long loading times…once I even had the problem where the desktop would appear but the icons wouldn’t :?

I think I’ll need to reformat my TR soon since I’ve been having a problem of the disappearing cursor for some time now (I have mentioned it earlier…sometimes when I restart my TR the cursor would disappear when above the power panel dialog box or also the turn off optical drive message box, while at other times it would be visible over both of these boxes. The former happens more often though :( )

i had a blue screen problem so manytime ,too..probably i’ll do the formatting my tr during the thanks giving since we got a serveral free days off.

[quote author=“Drachen”]I might be in the minority here, but I avoid reformatting unless I have no other choice. Usually moving hard drives (or machines) or serious operating system corruption are the only things that would make me reformat.

I dont have the patience to go in and replace deleted or currupted files… I just backup the most inportant files to my D: partition and use the Recovery program.

when windows xp was just released, the frequent blue screens I was getting with win ME was the main reason for me switching over to win xp. it’s a good thing there are not many with win xp.

Not that I don’t get corruption every once in a while, but what do you do that causes such massive problems so often? Spyware? Reformatting that often is insane. Better to start using Firefox, spywareblaster and spybot and save yourself the trouble.

Not that I don’t get corruption every once in a while, but what do you do that causes such massive problems so often? Spyware? Reformatting that often is insane. Better to start using Firefox, spywareblaster and spybot and save yourself the trouble.

I do… still get curruptions… I don’t care… everytime I recover the system, it makes it feel like the computer is brand new again

I try to do each system twice a year, i’d rather do it once a month, but I don’t have the patience.

All my data (collected) is stored on servers, so its just a matter of re-installing the software.

Eventually I will make custom restore DVD’s and just work that way…I always say I am going to do it, but I never do :oops:

Erik

Not that I don’t get corruption every once in a while, but what do you do that causes such massive problems so often? Spyware? Reformatting that often is insane. Better to start using Firefox, spywareblaster and spybot and save yourself the trouble.

I do… still get curruptions… I don’t care… everytime I recover the system, it makes it feel like the computer is brand new again

i feel the same way everytime i did,too… where you said”.. the computer is brand new again” :D

And I thought I was paranoid…

It’s safe to say that I give my systems an OS refresh once a year. Luckily, for each system, I build a custom DVD image using Acronis TrueImage that has the OS (pre-activated) and my most used apps (for that system) pre-installed. Usually, it’s just minor stuff that needs to be installed. Because I store all my data on my D: partition, I only need to refresh the C: partition which makes it much faster since it only needs to restore programs and system files. I also take periodic incremental snapshots (monthly or quarterly) of my system so I can revert back to a system state if need be (it works more cleanly than System Restore).

The craziest, coolest thing about how I do it is that it only takes about 15-30 minutes to fully restore a system with most of my programs. Normally, such a chore would take a whole day to do.

Thats exactly what I am always too lazy to do.

I’ve never tried it, does it work well? Any issues?

Thanks,
Erik

Thats exactly what I am always too lazy to do.

I’ve never tried it, does it work well? Any issues?

Thanks,
Erik

None that I can tell. It does take a bit of proactive thinking but it’s well worth it. Images can be loaded off Firewire or USB2 external drives, via a network share, a hidden partition on the hard disk or off DVDs I’ve created. It’s the most flexible program I’ve seen with this kind of support.

The time savings is simply amazing especially when it happens in the middle of client work. Actually, it doesn’t happen much anymore due to Windows XP SP2 being pretty rock solid. Also, ever since they implemented the incremental backups it’s made the images even more useful.

Cool, thanks, i’ll give it a try. I’ve always used Norton Ghost, but honestly, it’s a pain and really slow IMO. I remember once trying to ghost 50 machines at once over a network, it killed the entire network even though Norton assured us it wouldn’t.

We ended up pulling 5 at a time onto a smaller network and going from there. Ever since then I had an issue with making my own personal restore DVD…

Erik