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ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug
I started a fresh install around 9 and it looks like it's almost done; though you never really can tell because of how useless progress bars are. I don't think ive done a new install like this since i put windows 7 on my shitbox but i remember doing it almost yearly with xp. Nothin quite like having everything so fresh and fast, seems like no matter how careful you are stuff slowly slips by.

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Isaac
Aug 3, 2006

Fun Shoe
Never

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
cool story bro. kill yourself

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
Probably 6 years ago. drat. Don't even have a pc right now.

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
saying reformatted is retarded just say formatted

also youre this guy op
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp_CVZ9K28M

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


yeah, never, sorry


i mean i did get a new ssd recently but i just cloned the old one so that doenst really count now does it


also im a mac user and i've been migrating the system data from my old computer to my new one over and over since my ibook in 2004

lol.

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
im gonna reformat your face bitch

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord
i zeroize all my goddamn drives every time i see OPs posts show up just in case that poo poo gets save in a cache or something should be starting up any sec000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it
When my laptop gets hunkered down by viruses I just take a big dump on the keyboard and slam the thing shut, then put an ad on Craigslist that says "free poo poo sandwich".

Fruit-by-the-Foot Fetish
Aug 3, 2012
i 1'd this thread

jk idgaf

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

gary oldmans diary posted:

saying reformatted is retarded just say formatted

also youre this guy op
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp_CVZ9K28M

Its kind of funny this guy cares enough to put that level of effort into maintaining his pc but has a dell shitbox complete with the dumb malware level software prebuilts come with.

SD87
Jun 7, 2011
Summer of 97

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008




hi its 2014 and im using a loving crt with a modern computer cause im loving nuts

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

yeah, never, sorry


i mean i did get a new ssd recently but i just cloned the old one so that doenst really count now does it


also im a mac user and i've been migrating the system data from my old computer to my new one over and over since my ibook in 2004

lol.

probably in your best interest to format the gently caress out of that and install a real operating system like windows or losethos

Duke Pukem
Oct 23, 2010

Three cheers for dark beer!


Sometime in the 90's.

Gobblecoque
Sep 6, 2011
with having multi-tb harddrives, it's pretty rough to format the whole thing anymore

Isaac
Aug 3, 2006

Fun Shoe

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

hi its 2014 and im using a loving crt with a modern computer cause im loving nuts

I think thats suttsteve. He rules

Isaac
Aug 3, 2006

Fun Shoe
He made an sa account and did a rap battle because fyad made him a star

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug
Everything went pretty smoothly, i unfortunately couldn't find the cd for my mobo drivers so i had to download ethernet drivers on my phone and transfer them over but thats no biggy.

Shits like night and day would highly recommend

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord
my job usually buy me a new CPU every year or two, depending on if anything new comes out that i want. so, not for a while? :shrug:

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

Kuato posted:

my job usually buy me a new CPU every year or two, depending on if anything new comes out that i want. so, not for a while? :shrug:

My cpu is kind of old and could use an upgrade but i don't see how that's mutually exclusive from cleaning up yo hard drive

get me HQ!
Jul 28, 2010

Aziz... spark that shit nigga
lord i don't even know... it's been a while

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug
As nostalgic as it was viewing everything in 800 by 600 I am happy to have my video drivers fixed too

Masturbasturd
Sep 1, 2014
Installed Ubuntu on an obsolete laptop. It still struggles along 'bout 6uuuuumm years ago i thinks

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
my laptop can do email and the youtubes

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

factory reset mine because it kept bluescreening back in November. been working like a charm.

Masturbasturd
Sep 1, 2014

Enfield posted:

my laptop can do email and the youtubes

why don't you shut your pretty mouth sometimes?

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

Champenema posted:

why don't you shut your pretty mouth sometimes?

im a slack jawed yokel

Masturbasturd
Sep 1, 2014
looks pretty to me
:goon:

Split Pea Superman
Dec 16, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
hahaha why would I reformat a disc? I just buy a new hard drive and start fresh once things start bogging down and getting corrupt. sure i leave the old one in in case i get super-nostalgic for that one porn video, or want to look at an old document or something, but I'm glad I don't have to spend hours backing everything up just to reinstall on an old lovely drive anymore

logical phalluses
Mar 18, 2009

The living look upon the corpse with their eyesight,
But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks
curiously on the corpse.
if you have to format your hd to make your computer go fast congrats on being a dumbass i guess

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
reformat: format
disc:         disk
cpu:         pc
hd:           hdd

Split Pea Superman
Dec 16, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
Windows may be a dumb OS, but I don't think they get near enough credit for just how much stability has improved over the years. Or maybe hard drive manufacturers deserve all the credit, I'm just grateful that installs no longer feel like a managed plummet into unrecognizable chaos

clone on the phone
Aug 5, 2003

Couple months ago I upgraded from 8.1 to 10. Seems fine, don't really care.

NihilismNow
Aug 31, 2003

Rasmussen posted:

Couple months ago I upgraded from 8.1 to 10. Seems fine, don't really care.

This doesn't do a reformat by default.
:goonsay:

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

solaranus posted:

Windows may be a dumb OS, but I don't think they get near enough credit for just how much stability has improved over the years. Or maybe hard drive manufacturers deserve all the credit, I'm just grateful that installs no longer feel like a managed plummet into unrecognizable chaos
I totally agree, i was really stubborn about upgrading to 7 (i basically skipped over vista entirely) and im impressed at how long i went without needing to do really any maintenance at all. I feel like when i was first getting into computers doing a fresh install was supposed to be a pretty often thing but this is the first time ive done it on a pretty old computer.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

logical phalluses posted:

if you have to format your hd to make your computer go fast congrats on being a dumbass i guess

I dunno if thats really fair, im pretty diligent with my computers and keep up to date with protective software but if you're using the internet at all you're going to get issues. I mean this very website had malware injecting ads issues for a while

NihilismNow
Aug 31, 2003
I kind of want to reformat my computer with ReiserFS. It's to die for.

Windows 98
Nov 13, 2005

HTTP 400: Bad post
I never break my computer to the point where a reformat is necessary, because I'm not a loving idiot. So, never OP.

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a messed up horse
Mar 11, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
re-image my computer every night at 2 am, op

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