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Offline Reschke

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You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« on: December 01, 2009, 05:14:31 PM »
Forgetting to back up all your favorite website addressess...boy trying to remember all of those is a real PITA!
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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2009, 05:42:13 PM »
Quote from: Reschke on December 01, 2009, 05:14:31 PM
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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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2009, 05:48:47 PM »
Quote from: trigger2 on December 01, 2009, 05:42:13 PM
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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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2009, 06:32:28 PM »
Yeah I've reformatted my HD before forgetting to back up my phone book, now that sucked.
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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2009, 07:22:37 PM »
i just reformatted my 1 terabyte HD took foreverrrrrrrrrrrrr  :old:
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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2009, 09:12:17 PM »
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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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2009, 09:35:36 PM »
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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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2009, 10:04:06 PM »
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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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2009, 03:37:57 AM »
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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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2009, 05:18:23 AM »
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Offline Fishu

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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2009, 07:26:11 AM »
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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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2009, 07:34:05 AM »
Quote from: Fishu on December 02, 2009, 07:26:11 AM
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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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2009, 07:44:46 AM »
Quote from: Fishu on December 02, 2009, 07:26:11 AM
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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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2009, 08:24:52 AM »
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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Re: You know what sucks when you reformat a hard drive....
« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2009, 09:23:24 AM »
Quote from: Reschke on December 01, 2009, 05:14:31 PM
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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