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Maver · Post by **Maver** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 10:46 pm

1. .........mmmmm no
2. well a great thing is with a computer, you can't screw up a computer (unless you burn it) you can only screw up the os, and if your a windows user is comes natural to format ever 2 months

Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:23 pm

Maver wrote:and if your a windows user is comes natural to format ever 2 months

Amen.

Wait! There is an alternitive to Formatting! It only takes about 5 minets max and It gets you a fresh system again!

Nortan Ghost. It creates a copy of your harddrive contence in a hidden area of the disk, or on a bootable CD (or something like that). When you system getts unstable, retrive your ghost.

Draw back? Its like time travel. Every thing is exactly as it was when you first ghosted it. Every file setting, file location, and even when the file was modified all go back to that last ghost. Worst part is all of your new files go out the door too!!!

Solution. Partition your HardDrive and keep all your important files on one partition. Restore your system (to make shure its clean) before adding new software, then reGhost it.

I think Nortan Ghost does all the partitioning for you, but I've never used it.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:05 pm

I havent formatted this (win2k) system in over a year and it runs fine... operating systems are like cars, if you do small maintanence regularly then they will run fine for years.

CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:40 pm

Nekoboy Sal wrote:
Maver wrote:and if your a windows user is comes natural to format ever 2 months
Amen.

Wait! There is an alternitive to Formatting! It only takes about 5 minets max and It gets you a fresh system again!

Nortan Ghost. It creates a copy of your harddrive contence in a hidden area of the disk, or on a bootable CD (or something like that). When you system getts unstable, retrive your ghost.

Draw back? Its like time travel. Every thing is exactly as it was when you first ghosted it. Every file setting, file location, and even when the file was modified all go back to that last ghost. Worst part is all of your new files go out the door too!!!

Solution. Partition your HardDrive and keep all your important files on one partition. Restore your system (to make shure its clean) before adding new software, then reGhost it.

I think Nortan Ghost does all the partitioning for you, but I've never used it.

Amen to that! I ghosted my hdd its in 3 partitions (xp and server 2003)
The other is for all my crap so when a problem arises just format the drive with the os on it. mm how long has it been since i last formatted.. im honestly not sure but i havent had any problems at all, good ole spybot, a registry cleaner and a good virus scanner will do you a world of good.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:23 pm

My OS has been installed for 22 weeks almost (something like 6 months) and it works fine. At one point, XP was up for 12 days straight before a crash that required a hard reboot.