RE: Formatting....solve an argument?

From: The Unknown P (mikisiw_at_msn.com)
Date: 09/08/04


Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:19:03 -0700

How laughable. I have known HDD that haven't been formatted for 5 years or
more. The phalacy that one gains any sort of performance from reformatting a
hard drive x number of months or years is simply an urban legend. If there is
nothing wrong with the HDD or the OS or any of the applied hardware\software
there simply isn't any need to reformat at all. The gains are in the tweaking
of the registry and things like overclocking. Proper maintenance and
knowledge are the keys to a good and stable OS. I know of one XP machine that
has never had the HDD formatted accept at the time of the install of the OS.
That's going on three years. {]:~)



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