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Originally posted by Zero Alpha:
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Originally posted by philip:
I defragmentated my coputer once, it took me 16 hours. So now I'd rather format it if it's possible, that takes around 2 hours to get everything back (~1 hour format and windows install. rest drivers, games and backups). If you do make sure you have backups from everything important!
edit: and your install disk for your operating system!!!
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Once?? [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img] your supposed to do it weekly!! frankly im supprised it only took 16 hours if you only ever defragmented once. and how is formatting your computer better than waiting a few hours?? it would take me days to get my computer back to the same state.
defragment, scandisk, viruscan, and spyware scan regularly! [/QUOTE]I didn't change many things. I had done a format before and only installed NWN and BGII. My computer isn't connected to internet so i don't get much mess on my computer. formatting your computer takes a lot less time = ,ore time to play with it. i didnt find it very hard to get my computer back to what it was, as i said above 2 hours. so i think it's better and when I need to do it again I'll do a format.
i need to do scandisk BEFORE I defrag. that takes even longer to do cause of searching for bad clusters (that weren't even there) and format checks immediately and in 10 seconds for bad clusters and stuff and then defrags and clears out everything I don't need and didn't use for a long time (i'm lazy to do that stuff myself)