Formating hard drive

I've spent all day long formating my hard drive...I am pissed off to say the least. Luckily I have a second hard drive so I saved all my files and programs (that I know of). But I still have to go thru all the windows updates, and application updates, blah blah friggidy blah. Don't ya just hate this crap?

yes

my dad does it to his computer like every week...i did it on the laptop i had...try doing all ur updates with 56k :shakehead

Formatting is good for you. You need to get a second hard drive that you use to back up games and music with, but do not have any of the OS files on it. That way you can keep the OS refreshed with reformates and not have to reinstall everything over and over again


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Formatting is good for you. You need to get a second hard drive that you use to back up games and music with, but do not have any of the OS files on it. That way you can keep the OS refreshed with reformates and not have to reinstall everything over and over again


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smart man :bigthumb:

Formatting is good for you. You need to get a second hard drive that you use to back up games and music with, but do not have any of the OS files on it. That way you can keep the OS refreshed with reformates and not have to reinstall everything over and over again
Yeah I hear ya. I didn't have to format it, but it was slowing down a little and I just had way too much crap on there. Luckily I saved some updates for programs as well (like for my firewall), saved codecs, favorites, porn, videos, music. It's just a pain to have to waste my time doing it. XP is still a lot better though; I use to format it once every 2 months with '98. I envy you Mac and Unix/Linux/etc people.

You do know you can order a free CD from Microsoft with all the current updates...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx

Had No Idea

Damn, I didn't think they'd ship it for free. I'll have to remember that for next time, since it's all been installed now.

I have a DVD-R with an backup of my OS on it... if something messes up i am back and running within 5 minutes... it's great. all drivers all updates, even office bookmarks ect.

it's great !

... i'm such a geek...

You put a functional operating system on a DVD-R? How much space is the DVD-R and what OS does it have?

It would be a ghost image. I have one also. Mine is also a dvd+r. Mine is a Xp with all the updates

yeah it's a ghost image of my OS in peek performance and it takes about 3.5gb of space ( DVD-R has 4.7gb capacity)

since my OS is on my 30gb HD and everything else is spread out only my other 600gb I never loose anything vital.

OS installed on primary HD.
Apps installed on secondary HD.
Porn saved on external HD.
Ghost of OS on DVD or external HD.
Backups should be easy to do (if I wasn't so lazy).