how many times do you format your computer???

i just format it whenever it's necessary like my pc has a virus or something

it depends and if there is nothing i can do except formatting the sytstem ..then i do.it...but its not a routine that i follow....

my pc will be free from virus for hardly 8 months.after that only i will format my pc.

Hi, I remember that I have formatted my computer for 2 times and my laptop for 5 times. So, total is 7 times. I hate to format my computer and laptop because it takes long time and I lost a lot of data in my computer. The, I need to reinstall everything like the programs and drivers. I hope I will not need to format my computer a lot of time because I heard from my friends that formatting computer for a lot of times will cause damage to the hard disk. I have installed good antivirus program, firewall and other securities programs to protect my computer and laptop from virus attack and avoid formating my computer and laptop again.

i don't do it usually. i don't format too much unless there's no other solution but to format it. formatting may get your hard disk be scratched. if you do this regularly you might get you hard disk weak or worst damaged. then you'll never get to recover it again. and all the files on it will be missing for good. maybe scanning with an updated anti-virus could help you lessen your formatting schedule. are you from an it industry?

once in 3 month

i format my computer when it is a bit slower and if it has virus that i cannot heal. if it is ok, i will not format it.

I formatted once. Got rid of Vista and put Ubuntu on there. You should be more careful of what you view/download. You shouldn't have to format that often.

hi i do format my computer 2 times when i have a problem "blue screen" , so i format and install my xp pro sp2 a lot of work to install all software again

I've been using my laptop for months now and haven't reformatted it ever since. My operating system is Ubuntu and it is virus free. Viruses usually attack Windows only. There's no need for me to reformat to get rid of viruses and trojans. I have Windows installed on my laptop but I don't use it for downloading from the Internet and in this way, I avoid having viruses on my computer. I use Ubuntu when downloading from the web. I managed to install windows in my Ubuntu through VirtualBox.

If my PC doesn't give me any problems, I wouldn't even bother to reformat it. If you do it too often, the wear & tear effect will take it's toll on your HDD & also ODDs. I think I do too many reformatting of computers for others as I'm in the IT line that's why I'm so lazy to reformat my own, haha!~

if my computer become slow or infection by virus... i will format my computer. Also if my computer OS have a problem or missing some file.

last month i made a history in computer formating. last month i formated my computer 10 times. becz of viruse make mistake during insttaling softwarezs. i konw it's wrong but i have no other opstion

I format my pc about 2-4 times a year, however this is usually due messing around with it too much. reformatting is a lenghty process and sometimes it can take me up to a week to get things back to the way I like. Lots of tweaking, back up installing progs etc. involved. I seriously need a format now but just cant be bothered to deal with it. Maybe next week :)

If there's no problem with it I won't do that

It is not a good habit to format the computer I see from the web. My computer used to infect with virus, and I disinfect it and scan the whole computer. But I never format my computer only for infection of virus, because format will cost me lots of time. And it is no help to delete the virus. The only time I remember formating my computer is because it is totally down because of infection, and it runs slowly like a snail. I have to format it. But unfortunately, after formating, when I connect it to internet and see some websites, it infected with virus again. I nearly go crazy! Then I install the antivirus software from my school and kill the virus, and my computer become working well. Before that, I use no antivirus software. So, I think formating can not deal with the problem.

actually if your computer isn't giving you any problem, norm i will just format bout once a yr to just clear off all the bad sectors in my hard disk by doing a low level format externally. so when i reinstall my OS it will be like installing it on a brand new harddisk. so on my opinion, either when your com is giving you problem then you format or once every yr or every 2 yrs.