How often u format ur computer?

I format my computer evry 3 months. I do it to regain the speed and get rid of the viruses that my anti virus fails to detect or heal. I format only the partition containing the Operating System. I think you should not format your system this often. It may affect the life of your hard disk or any other storage media. With formatting my PC every 3 onths routine, I am too concerned about the hard disk life. Also, formatting so frequently must be driving you crazy for installing the OS and other software again and again.

hi,in beginning days when i bought computer.i don't have computer knowledge about viruses and Trojans,which i copied in to my disk.. so i faced the above situation daily..after my friends helped me giving anti virus to scan to get rid of virus and avoid format..now i maintain backup disk to have back data and rescue disk to boot operating system when it is failed.... happy mylotting:-)

I seldom will format my computer as I have quite a lot of large files in my computer. I don't have such a big hard disk to store all of my files. If it's something wrong with the operating system, usually I will just reinstall it and that's all. I love China

Excuse me for letting my ignorants show, but what do you mean by reformat? and how do I do it? and is it easy to do, or do I have to be a computer whiz to do it?

Hello contqactsmiley, I think nobody formats hard disk frequently and it should not be needed so often. I am no exception. The system with which I experiment much and perform tests with new softwares and OS-es, needs formatting, now and then. But the one I use for other purposes us rarely formatted. It contains valuable data and frequent back up is not always possible. Happy mylotting

i will format once in a year and my computer needs it ,because of errors we do with this computer.

Hello contactsmiley. I have only formated my computer for thrice, when there were severe viruses infecting my computer. Each time when my computer was re-formated, some of the files were deleted to keep the viruses away from my computer. Happy posting, friend.

I formatted it once, when i installed the OS at the beginning. It happened 2 years ago. Then i never needed to do that again. Ohhhh i was forgetting, i use a true OS, is called Linux. ;)

I have only re-formatted my computer once, after it was proforming so badly and once I did it was back to its old self. It must be a pain to have to re-format every day, you shouldnt need to do it that often.

My computer formatted once, when i installing new OS. That i don't re-formatted since March 03, 2003. Re-formatted every day can concluded your HD head, your HD capacity will be loss every time you formating your HD. When my hard disk getting slow so i will doing defrag my hard disk.

hi there....i had bought my system 3 years back.....but i have formatted only twice or thrice..... its not good to format your system again and again......take good care of your system.. have a nice day...:-)

I have formatted my HDD many times. Once i formatted it as it was needed before installing Solaris and i wanted to re-partition the drive. There were a few other times it was formatted because the Windows got attacked by dangerous virus and the installed anti-virus program could not detect and clean it. Its not good for HDD if formatted many times , as far as i know formatting it frequently reduces its performance.

I never format my computer. I will soon though to make room for the new ext4 file system, but probably not until summer-ish. I thought you hurt your system by formatting it too much? Maybe it's wrong, but that's a thought to keep in mind :P There are so many tools to clean up your system so there shouldn't be any reason to reformat on a daily basis.