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It actually depends not in time, but rather on
- how many installations of new programs,
- how many uninstallations of installed programs,
- how big and system intensive your installed programs are,
- how bug-free your installed programs and installations attempts are,
- how many virus infections have made it through your systems,
- how many virus cleaning have been made by your antivirus program,
- how successful the virus cleaning made by your antivirus program is,
- how complete and thorough the updates of your installed programs are,
and many more you can expand by yourself.
The point is, if you feel your system is already too heavy and a lot more slower than it used to be, that is when it should be re-installed.
A reformatting might not be necessary, instead, deletion of the OS's folder completely and a file system check and fix is a must.
What else can I help you with?
4gb flash drive only 2mb in your computer?
Try reformatting it.
Why do you wait a month before reformatting a hard drive on a old computer?
If a customer needs some information from the old computer, it may still be recoverable until the computer is reformatted.
Can you just reinstall the CD drive without reformatting the computer?
yes you very well do that.when come to the setup portion choose the repair install.then install now.
How can you remove emails from your hard drive without reformatting?
Get a program called recuva by piriform, the creators of crap cleaner. With that you should be able to locate the file and save to an external drive.
Why does my external hard drive work in Linux but not in Windows?
The most likely reason is that the drive was formatted with a Linux file system. Reformatting the drive to NTFS or FAT32 will make the drive usable in Windows. You could also install an ext4 driver in Windows to access the drive without reformatting it.
Can a virus destroy a hard drive or render a HDD useless even formatting cannot save it?
A virus can corrupt your hard drive, but you should still be able to save it by reformatting. What "reformatting" actually means is that you erase the entire contents of the drive, and then you reinstall your operating system. Before you do this, you need to back up all the data on your computer or you will loose it. This includes all your files and programs, emails, etc. Backing up data is something that I prefer to have a computer technician do, because they have equipment set up to back up the large number of programs and files, which take up a lot of memory. It's time consuming and cumbersome to try backing up all this data onto disks.
Can you reinstall Windows XP without reformatting any extra partitions on that drive?
Yes.
Your computer system wont let anti spyware threw or download?
download the software on a different computer, save it to a flash drive or CD/DVD, and install it directly from there. This is typical with some of the bad infections, and this will be your only choice, short from reformatting.
Should I buy a new computer or a new hard drive?
Computer
Is deleting or reformatting a hard drive an acceptable procedure for sanitizing a hard drive?
No. The clearing process is not an acceptable method of sanitizing unclassified hard disks.
What should you do before disposing your old computer?
get rid of all info properly and get your files on to a flash-drive in case you need them later
What you should never do to your hard drive?
You should NEVER unplug your hard drive with your computer still powered on. It will destroy the drive.
