How often do you format?

Only if I have to, mostly with new hardware or drastic system changes. The times of regular re-installs are over in my opinion.
 
Same as person above. Setting up my PC with all the software and games I have is just too time consuming so avoid format as much as possible now. When Win7 is released I will do a format then.
 
Joe Average said:
After that, I do plan to build a nice i7 box with 24GB of RAM in it and that's going to be my primary machine for the next 2 years or so, with one installation of Windows 7 x64, and most of that RAM assigned to RAMdisk duties for testing out entire installations of any OS I care to throw at it.
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Not to hijack this thread but......how's that "Ramdisk Manifesto" coming along?
 
AbJ32 said:
I format whenever my Windows install breaks, so not very often. The last time I re-installed Windows Vista on this machine was when my hard drive broke, and that was at least a good 8 months ago.
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Likewise; I never format if it's not unavoidable. I've never reinstalled Vista on this machine, which is about 1.5 years old, nor Windows XP on my laptop before. I did have to do it to Windows 2000 due to a motherboard upgrade, and to a Windows 95 machine on which the hard drive was killed by Scandisk (and I never used 98). I don't usually make dramatic changes to machines - if such a large change is required, it's basically a new build.
 
When I install a new OS or build a new computer. What are you guys messing up that you need to format every six months?
 
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