Re: Formatting....solve an argument?

From: Herb Fritatta (Herb_at_dontspam.com)
Date: 09/08/04


Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:24:11 -0500

The Unknown P wrote:

> 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. {]:~)
>

Phalacy??? Is that an untrue story about a phallus?



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