How often do you format your hard drive?

[Greasy Burger]

I'm thinking about once a year

[thePh@r@oh]

something like that

[SiliconJon]

Wayyy too often [I do, I mean]

[shahani]

Twice a year is a good number. Cleans out the muck, loads a squeeky clean windows and then you can spend endless hours tweaking it and loading applications......

[Greasy Burger]

How about make two partitions. One partition is dedicated for operating system and the other one is for applications

[Gomer]

Used to do it about every 4-6 months w/ W98. XP has been a dream... Never had to reinstall since it came out. Still rock solid and I beat on it pretty well.

[[Neo770]]

I normally install Windows 2000 once a year. Unless i'm messing with something and screw it up which happens every now and then. Thats why I now have an image of my system partition.

[VHockey86]

I do it prolly every 5-6 months, depends how clogged it feels like its getting (win xp pro). I just keep all my data on a seperate partition so reinstalling OS isnt a huge issue

[nochay]

2 times a year for me, unless it is real bad. Always the best. I will do a power clean also, (low level format) just to really wipe it clean

Dane

[joker_927]

every other month.