reformatting
By DoubleEpic
@DoubleEpic (78)
Philippines
July 30, 2011 3:45pm CST
Whenever I get frustrated by my PC or a virus or anything technical, I refuse to be beaten and just reformat the whole thing. I am OK with that since I have a good backup for my programs and I have such a short patience.
My techie friend says though that it is bad for the system. Since I have not experienced anything bad and I refuse to take his word for it, I now have a nagging question.
How does it really affect my system negatively?
1 response
@goggles213 (735)
• Philippines
30 Jul 11
It doesn't affect the system negatively at all, in fact its like a fresh new start for your system. I don't see anything wrong with this type of approach in dealing with issues especially if you have a good back-up however, it would be best to do a clean install to remove any clutters, clean install would mean that you would have to delete the partition, recreate a new partition and install the operating system. This is what I have been doing to all my computers for the past 8 years. They are all still running as I am replying to your post.
@sandeepguggu (52)
• India
31 Jul 11
Partition means how to divide your total hard drive space to parts like ( C, D, E ...). You can this by Operating System Discs like Windows 7 OS. But it's always better to clean up your total hard disc by using boot able CD's like Norton partition Magic to divide your disc to as many drives as you want, and it is the best way to clean up your hard drive from viruses, But remember one thing Norton Partition magic deletes your total hard disc and recreates the partitions. But you have the flexibility with OS discs to partition part of hard disc space.
