How often do you reinstall your OS?

[shanX]

bt still after dat u have to install all da sotwear and all the drivers and it's a mess.. u have 2 start all over..... dats kinda not da anser neda...

Exactly thas the part i hate, when we hav to format.

Its ok for ppl who keep their systems stock, not for tuners

 

[shanX]

Not extreme, idiotX!

 

[zCexVe]

neon_white[/b]]bt still after dat u have to install all da sotwear and all the drivers and it's a mess.. u have 2 start all over..... dats kinda not da anser neda...

including softs and configure most of them,i hav very little needs...

Its ok for ppl who keep their systems stock, not for tuners

Mine is not stock.It uses an S939 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2000MHz cpu OCed to 2500MHz and DDR 400 RAMs OCed to 500..

 

[zCexVe]

Not extreme, idiotX!

whos? we think its fun to format twice a day..
i did it 2-3 days ago.. uknw once i had installed windows 6 times in a day..

 

[sri_lion]

Exactly thas the part i hate, when we hav to format.

Its ok for ppl who keep their systems stock, not for tuners

Correct!!! if you are just a surfer that types docs in Word and plays solitaire and Hearts then I can at least try to imagine, but after all those tuning and work that has been done for your OS, and all those programs you installed.... For me, every reformat is really a pain in the @ss!!!

 

[shanX]

Mine is not stock.It uses an S939 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2000MHz cpu OCed to 2500MHz and DDR 400 RAMs OCed to 500..

Oh rich kid on the block! I wasnt talkin about hardware, just software

 

[shanX]

Correct!!! if you are just a surfer that types docs in Word and plays solitaire and Hearts then I can at least try to imagine, but after all those tuning and work that has been done for your OS, and all those programs you installed.... For me, every reformat is really a pain in the @ss!!!

Exactly same with me! I hate havin to do every tweak after a re install.

 

[Anusha]

machan it's not good for the hard drive to format it so many time yaaa

Hmmm...why not? My 40GB drive on the other PC, which is working in perfect order, has gone through more than 100 quick formats.

 

[Anusha]

According to chaminga, he formats every time he has a problem!! (and sometimes twice a day!!)!!! That's a bit extreme don't you think??

What should I say....? He's an extreme guy Our elakiri extremist

 

[Anusha]

Exactly same with me! I hate havin to do every tweak after a re install.

You people (not only you shanX) should really look into disk imaging.

Anyways, there are plenty of software that will work standalone. I have found few that I use can be worked from a previous installation, and I have moved them to a different partition. I don't have to install them after a reinstall of the OS. Just locate the main exe, and execute. If it requires registry entries, it will automatically add them. Most of the games are like that. NFSC, NFSMW, FEAR, FarCry, Battlefield, Prey, Doom, Quake4, Oblivion....you name it.

From the software that I use,
CD Bank Cataloguer, Ad-aware, Concise Oxford Dictioary, Hot Keyboard, utorrent, FTPRush, Flashget, Firefox, Thunderbird, Jetaudio, WinRAR, Locate, NetMeter, QSuite, Foxit Reader, DVD Decryptor, Damn NFO Viewer, UltraISO, PowerMenu all work as standalone.

 

[sri_lion]

You people (not only you shanX) should really look into disk imaging.

I'm already doing it!! and I was speaking from chaminga's perspective!! I don't think he is restoring an image!!!

 

[Anusha]

I'm already doing it!! and I was speaking from chaminga's perspective!! I don't think he is restoring an image!!!

I don't think he will get the full satisfaction of reinstalling everything from the scratch

 

[shanX]

But in some cases, it gets messy!

 

[sri_lion]

I don't think he will get the full satisfaction of reinstalling everything from the scratch

ha..ha..ya!! He'll miss it dearly!!!

 

[sri_lion]

Oh by the way!!! Can ya'll tell me the size of your last image?

 

[shanX]

btw although i knw about images, i hav no idea how to use em, pls can somebody explain?

 

[Anusha]

Oh by the way!!! Can ya'll tell me the size of your last image?

3.97GB. This is Vista Business Edition, remember.

 

[sri_lion]

btw although i knw about images, i hav no idea how to use em, pls can somebody explain?

Since you know the term... I'm using "R-Drive" to create my images!! you can get a trial version!! jus google it and see!!!

 

[Anusha]

btw although i knw about images, i hav no idea how to use em, pls can somebody explain?

You use an imaging software (eg: Acronis TrueImage is what I use; there is Norton Ghost, Symantec Live State Recovery etc.). You create a 1:1 backup of your system partition and save it as an image in another partition. You have to use the same software to restore it. It will erase the entire partition and extract the whole image to the partition. In case you can't boot into Windows, those software usually let you create bootabl disks or even add an option to run the software before Windows starts booting in.

 

[Anusha]

Since you know the term... I'm using "R-Drive" to create my images!! you can get a trial version!! jus google it and see!!!

I haven't heard of that software. I use Acronis TrueImage Home Edition. Works perfectly.