Re: Unnecessary HD formatting
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 05/28/04
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Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 16:29:56 +0100
Curious wrote:
>I am also agast at how many people feel the need to
>reformat their HD. Is that really necessary in most
>cases?
Rarely. If they get things into a total tangle, or decide that they
want to throw out most things they have installed and the easiest way is
to start over clean. Unfortunately one or two recent worm attacks get
so pervasive that the safest way is to start clean.
> Wouldn't restoring the HD from a full backup
>replace the need to reformat the HD and reinstall the
>OS?
That presupposes that they have made one. Few people coming here asking
for that sort of advice have even thought of it. I keep a tight
system's partition and image backup - and go back quite often after
doing say a Beta test upgrade install. I have not had to do a format
and clean install, other than in such testing, since I installed Windows
ME in 2000. And that includes a complete hardware rebuild
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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