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Last time you did Wipe-Install for your OS

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vuzedome:
Main OS HDD(160GB), never!
HDD(320GB) for OS dual boot or guest host, every 3 months or so.
Storage(640GB and growing), so far once.
I've got a nice sequence going, too bad they wont make 320GB platters anymore, or else I'll go with a four platter 1280GB HDD.

shabutie:

--- Quote from: Tatsujin on October 30, 2009, 03:38:08 AM ---
--- Quote from: shabutie on October 30, 2009, 02:34:37 AM ---I've done it 4 or 5 times or so in the past 6 months (It's really annoying)

XP > XP > Vista > XP > 7

Hopefully all goes well with 7 ^_^

--- End quote ---
If 7 fails, then its your hardware.

--- End quote ---

Only one of those were for something actually being wrong.

I hate Vista so much...

kurandoinu:
Back when I had my XP laptop I did it once after a year and that was because I had a stubborn virus and I was selling it.
My Vista laptop hasn't been done at all, but its not been used since Christmas except to download something.
My Mac got done a few weeks ago after about 10 months, but that was to do a clean install of Snow Leopard.

I don't tend to think about it... the computers I used before that however, ha ha, they REALLY need it. My parents are still using them too. They've not been defragged or anything in about 6 years

Slykester:
I've had XP running for over 2 years. I recently had to perform a re-installation, but that was due to a hardware refresh. I'll admit though, it was/is a development machine.

F-Secure was the cause of the only occasion where I almost lost Windows. It came with the system, and I made the mistake of thinking it would catch trivial malware. I had to manually remove the malware in the end, and you can bet the first thing I did after was to get rid of F-Secure. Even AVG sucks, I put that on a couple family computers and they still manage to break the systems somehow, and in short time. I'm working on my brother's computer... again. I'm just going to put Windows 7 and Comodo on it, we'll see how things work out this time. If anyone can break Windows 7, my brother can and will.

The moral being that XP is old and insecure, being aware of this and using the right countermeasures will prolong your install.

LilPimpT:
In the last..3? years of having my computer i had to wipe it many, many times. At least over 12...The reason being my computer was running vista with 6.24GHz (Well, 3.12GHz x 2 [not a duo]) CPU, and only 512 RAM...And so, be it that or be it it was doomed in the first place what with vista, My hard drive began getting CRC errors, i didn't know what the hell that meant, til my comp BSODed after..the 8th? wipe..It wouldn't read shit, it couldn't do shit. It was screwed..I fixed it sort of when i bought a second, 750GB (the first was 250GB) drive from newegg..After..Ahem ..Installing windows XP, Windows XP, Windows XP, i finally found a windows XP-64 bit, and now i use that..I've had to wipe it once or twice though, just because it never hurts to wipe once in a while, we don't want our hard drives to become like the shittler..Currently all my "broken" HD has is my 4.some gigs of photos..T.T

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