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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Reschke on December 01, 2009, 05:14:31 PM
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Forgetting to back up all your favorite website addressess...boy trying to remember all of those is a real PITA!
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Forgetting to back up all your favorite website addressess...boy trying to remember all of those is a real PITA!
You know what else sucks?
Forgetting to put the internet drivers onto a flashdrive... >.<
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You know what else sucks?
Forgetting to put the internet drivers onto a flashdrive... >.<
Ohhh yeah, definitely have kicked myself in the arse multiple times for this one!
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Yeah I've reformatted my HD before forgetting to back up my phone book, now that sucked.
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i just reformatted my 1 terabyte HD took foreverrrrrrrrrrrrr :old:
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Took me about 35 minutes from the time I dropped the Win7 Ultimate 64 bit disk in until I was back up and running. That includes the format to start from a fresh and clean drive that was last wiped clean with the first install of Vista Home Premium 32 bit back in January 07.
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It's best to have a healthy computer standing by before operating on the patient. :old:
Too bad we can't all have like five or six laying around, right? Sometimes it's a struggle just to keep one.
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Yeah but it still stinks when the other two or three healthy ones don't have the same favorites on them that yours did...well I guess now I get to surf around looking for those places a little bit.
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With the price of Drives these days....
I allways create an complete image before any major upgrade.
Learned the hard way to many times :)
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http://www.xmarks.com/ (http://www.xmarks.com/)
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Why reformat the hard drive? I've never reformatted one, other than the brand new drives (not much of a choice there).
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Why reformat the hard drive? I've never reformatted one, other than the brand new drives (not much of a choice there).
- Follow up after performing a security wipe.
- Follow up after reallocating the partitions.
- To switch between FAT to NTSF.
- Prep for changing operating systems.
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Why reformat the hard drive? I've never reformatted one, other than the brand new drives (not much of a choice there).
It was bloated and stuffed with an upgrade to Win Vista Home Premium 32 bit from WinXP from 2006 and then all the accumulated stuff for a year and then it had an error that I traced to an old installed program that was just slowing things down.
So I decided with this freebie copy of Win7 Ultimate 64 bit that I had that I should just install it completely clean and that is what I did. It literally took me about 2 minutes to wipe the 250GB hard drive and another 33 minutes to install Win 7 in a clean and easy manner.
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Reschke -- I second dBeav's recommendation of Xmarks. I have my bookmarks synced across 4 or 5 different desktop/pc/mac systems -- Firefox and IE.
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Forgetting to back up all your favorite website addressess...boy trying to remember all of those is a real PITA!
I wiped my Porno collection from college grabbed from
a 28k dialup. That is pain
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... always remember to backup all your trojans, worms and viruses. Also type out that you plane to format your drive so anyone using your machine as a soldier can properly setup to reaquire the machine once format is done.
Once your machine is setup then access your router and place this machine in the DMZ to facilitate better access to outsiders that may need to setup their software too.
This BS has been brought to you by your friendly neighborhood 5huffl3r :neener:
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Forgetting to back up all your favorite website addressess...boy trying to remember all of those is a real PITA!
If you use Firefox, you can export your favorites to a HTML page, copy it over to the new one, and import them back in.
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- Follow up after performing a security wipe.
- Follow up after reallocating the partitions.
- To switch between FAT to NTSF.
- Prep for changing operating systems.
Converting FAT32 to NTSF does not require formatting. However doing it the other way around would require it, but I find very little use for that.
Reallocating partitions on a hard drive with stuff in it would be better achieved with proper tools that do not require formatting.
Between Windows versions I have never formatted hard drives. It'd be too much hassle.
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Converting FAT32 to NTSF does not require formatting. However doing it the other way around would require it, but I find very little use for that.
Reallocating partitions on a hard drive with stuff in it would be better achieved with proper tools that do not require formatting.
Between Windows versions I have never formatted hard drives. It'd be too much hassle.
Maybe there is a language barrier and we are just mis-communicating.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
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Windows tends to degrade over time. Who knows why, but it does. Things just stop working or run very slowly, and it varies as to what goes on every machine. Personally I've slipstreamed my XP Home install on software that was meant to do Pro, so my system tends to ditch things at an accelerated rate. Usually first to go is the ability to shut down/reboot/logoff without the kernel crashing before getting to the options (I click "Log Off or "Turn Off Computer" and explorer crashes). Then things will begin running slowly in general.
(Sorry if that was longwinded, but I was waiting for my internet connection to come back...another wonder of this computer)
Generally, when a computer starts slowing down, behaving strangely, or what-have-you, it's good to reformat. Many keep a schedule (think Skuzzy said his was 3 months?) to format regularly. Then again, those of us who do that have a separate partition for Windows.
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Generally, when a computer starts slowing down, behaving strangely, or what-have-you, it's good to reformat. Many keep a schedule (think Skuzzy said his was 3 months?) to format regularly. Then again, those of us who do that have a separate partition for Windows.
I've simply deleted the folders; either by booting up from different drive or boot disc (usb included). Though, lately I've bought a new hard drive at least once a year and I've simply installed windows the new drive. So, now I have 4 different OS installations (2*XP, Vista, Win7), since I've been too lazy to remove those - hey, i might need them!
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Maybe there is a language barrier and we are just mis-communicating.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Just tell me what is the issue instead of putting me down like that.
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OK Fishu, You asked:
Why reformat the hard drive? I've never reformatted one, other than the brand new drives (not much of a choice there).
I gave your four specific examples of when you would need to reformat a drive. And even though, by your own admission you have no experience with it, you proceeded to argue my points, and quite poorly.
My first reaction was that you obviously have no idea what you are talking about. For example, you can't change the allocation of space on a hard drive without disrupting the file system. Therefore, if you repartition your drive you have to format the new partitions with a new file system before you can access them with an OS. This should be quite obvious. In fact it's so obvious that I considered that you might be trolling. Either you're trolling, or you like posting arguments about things you really don't understand.
Then I saw you are from Finland, and considered that English is probably not your primary language. Maybe you misunderstand the "formatting" we're talking about. Since you are probably an intelligent person, I gave you the benefit of the doubt.
So, which is it? Do you not understand what we're talking about, or do you just argue things you don't understand?
If you really can't think of a reason why someone would want to format a drive on occasion, then you really don't have any credibility with me in this thread.
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For example, you can't change the allocation of space on a hard drive without disrupting the file system. Therefore, if you repartition your drive you have to format the new partitions with a new file system before you can access them with an OS.
I actually have resized my partitions without formatting without causing damage. I didn't enjoy the experience (scared crapless) of it though. Would rather have just had them right to start with.
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I have a question about my laptop 17' HP,,the screen is cracked on the sides broken, the laptop starts but the screen is dead, i can't control it without screen. Now this happen 2nd time since i got it,1st time was replaced under warranty, now the warranty expired and i've been told would cost 400$ to replace it. I don't want to waste $$ to fix it, when i can buy a new one for 5-600$.
My question; How can i transfer the hard drive info to other computer / external hard in this condition? is it possible to hook it to some other monitor, to read/copy the hard ?
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Ghi,
You can hook up a monitor to the VGA port on the back of the laptop (blue port) if it has one and switch your display function on the laptop keyboard so the display will show up on your monitor.
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My question; How can i transfer the hard drive info to other computer / external hard in this condition? is it possible to hook it to some other monitor, to read/copy the hard ?
From your word usage (and no insult intended here), I would recommend finding someone who knows what they're doing to help you. In the mean time, find a SATA to USB conversion cable, enclosure, or dock. Here's (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000353&Description=SATA%20to%20USB&name=Adapters%20%26%20Gender%20Changers) a search that returned some useful results.
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You know what else sucks?
Forgetting to put the internet drivers onto a flashdrive... >.<
you can always download em though, can't you? :rofl
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you can always download em though, can't you? :rofl
Heh, yeah...
"Page cannot be displayed."
$*#*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you use Firefox, you can export your favorites to a HTML page, copy it over to the new one, and import them back in.
That would have been a great thing to do IF I had remembered to do it before the format and install of a new OS; I will be using this Xmarks thing in the future.
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Thank you for answering.
My first reaction was that you obviously have no idea what you are talking about. For example, you can't change the allocation of space on a hard drive without disrupting the file system. Therefore, if you repartition your drive you have to format the new partitions with a new file system before you can access them with an OS. This should be quite obvious. In fact it's so obvious that I considered that you might be trolling. Either you're trolling, or you like posting arguments about things you really don't understand.
Fortunately I wasn't aware of this fact before. I have repartitioned my hard drive without having to format it (the old or new partition; of course if you like to twiddle with semantics then the new drive is formatted in a sense, but the data is not lost). Like I said, it can be done with proper tools, like partition magic for one. These proper tools can change the partition tables without losing any data (what comes to Windows).
Then I saw you are from Finland, and considered that English is probably not your primary language. Maybe you misunderstand the "formatting" we're talking about. Since you are probably an intelligent person, I gave you the benefit of the doubt.
I would always wish to know what I might have misunderstood, other than simply being put down for having english as the foreign language. You can't learn an error without knowing where you've gone wrong, lest defend your argument.
Generally "formatting" means the act of setting up a file system and erasing the information of all of the pre-existing data in the clusters assigned to the new file system, resulting in an empty file system. Though, the data written to the disk can be still retrieved, unless the clusters are overwritten with new data.
So, which is it? Do you not understand what we're talking about, or do you just argue things you don't understand?
Well, I do have 17 years of experience with PC systems, preceeded by experience of Amiga, Atari and Commodore 64; and even more experience in english (especially back then there wasn't much of a choice). Though, that is not to say I couldn't be erred or indeed misunderstand. However I can understand english much better than I can speak it, so do not let my grammar errors make you think otherwise.
If you really can't think of a reason why someone would want to format a drive on occasion, then you really don't have any credibility with me in this thread.
In the case of re-installing Windows I can't. Otherwise there's only a handful of situations where you really need to reformat. Of course everyone is free to reformat their HDD as much as they wish, but most of the times I find it to be too much of a hassle. Yes, I'm lazy and I will always try to find a way around reformat; re-installing Windows is the easiest.
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LOL, you know what's really funny? This is happening to me right now not a day after I made fun of it... I took the RAM and HD and DVD burner out of my ded PC and put it in our old one, but I don't have the drivers and stuff, woohoo! I guess I gotta burn a disc with em on it...
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LOL, you know what's really funny? This is happening to me right now not a day after I made fun of it... I took the RAM and HD and DVD burner out of my ded PC and put it in our old one, but I don't have the drivers and stuff, woohoo! I guess I gotta burn a disc with em on it...
You only need your ethernet driver on a USB stick, others you can then download and install.
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My first reaction was that you obviously have no idea what you are talking about. For example, you can't change the allocation of space on a hard drive without disrupting the file system. Therefore, if you repartition your drive you have to format the new partitions with a new file system before you can access them with an OS. This should be quite obvious.
Only if your experience is limited to the very poor set of tools inherent to windows OS. Try Parted Magic for example (free linux based partitioning tool).
Features
* Format internal and external hard drives.
* Move, copy, create, delete, expand & shrink hard drive partitions.
* Clone your hard drive, to create a full backup.
* Test hard drives for impending failure.
* Test memory for bad sectors.
* Benchmark your computer for a performace rating.
* Securely erase your entire hard drive, wiping it clean from all data.
* Gives access to non-booting systems allowing you to rescue important data.
* Runs from the CD, no install required.
http://partedmagic.com
Oh and you can upgrade an existing file system to a higher level i.e. Fat32 -> ntfs without reformatting. In fact some OEM systems came with an option to do an upgrade via a simple .bat while preinstalled with Fat32.
http://forums.windowsforum.org/index.php?showtopic=15487
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yeah I got the net up and runnin, but I can't get Vista to load... glad I put XP on it before this happened :D
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yeah I got the net up and runnin, but I can't get Vista to load... glad I put XP on it before this happened :D
Just dump Vista, it's awful. Windows 7 and XP are the only two choices.
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@ Fishu and everyone else reading this thread.
I was dead wrong.
I didn't believe it until I had a chance to explore it and do it.
You certainly CAN modify the partitions on a Windows XP machine with the OS remaining in tact, and without completely rebuilding.
I apologize not just for being wrong, but for being wrong and arrogant. :o
:salute
Stalwart
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try formatting the hard drive....
and finding out your windows cd is scratched and unusable. no reinstall for juu
:o :mad:
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Fishu, Excelent post, I loved reading this.
Your English is much better than most people who were born speaking it, comprehension and writing. S!
PS: very classy Stalwart, the appology
Thank you for answering.
Fortunately I wasn't aware of this fact before. I have repartitioned my hard drive without having to format it (the old or new partition; of course if you like to twiddle with semantics then the new drive is formatted in a sense, but the data is not lost). Like I said, it can be done with proper tools, like partition magic for one. These proper tools can change the partition tables without losing any data (what comes to Windows).
I would always wish to know what I might have misunderstood, other than simply being put down for having english as the foreign language. You can't learn an error without knowing where you've gone wrong, lest defend your argument.
Generally "formatting" means the act of setting up a file system and erasing the information of all of the pre-existing data in the clusters assigned to the new file system, resulting in an empty file system. Though, the data written to the disk can be still retrieved, unless the clusters are overwritten with new data.
Well, I do have 17 years of experience with PC systems, preceeded by experience of Amiga, Atari and Commodore 64; and even more experience in english (especially back then there wasn't much of a choice). Though, that is not to say I couldn't be erred or indeed misunderstand. However I can understand english much better than I can speak it, so do not let my grammar errors make you think otherwise.
In the case of re-installing Windows I can't. Otherwise there's only a handful of situations where you really need to reformat. Of course everyone is free to reformat their HDD as much as they wish, but most of the times I find it to be too much of a hassle. Yes, I'm lazy and I will always try to find a way around reformat; re-installing Windows is the easiest.
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try formatting the hard drive....
and finding out your windows cd is scratched and unusable. no reinstall for juu
:o :mad:
I'll go one better than that...your 7 year old decides he wants to help and when you turn and see him with it you scream NOOOOOO just as he drops the DVD and it lands on the edge popping a nice neat burst crack in the edge of it....instant coaster...M$ wanted me to send them the DVD as proof and $150 bucks. I said no thanks and used a 2nd DVD to install and used the serial number from the busted disk. Now I have to make a backup of that DVD before he gets that one.
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You know what else sucks?
Forgetting to put the internet drivers onto a flashdrive... >.<
Always keep the cd's.
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One of the many things I like to do immediately after installing any Windows is to move the "Documents and Settings" folder from the C: drive to a local network drive. You have to edit the Windows registry to do it, but it sure does save a lot of time when you want to reinstall the OS on the local computer.
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Same here Skuzzy, and have done for years.
P.S. I hate Windows.