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#30744 19/06/03 07:52 PM
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well im sure your just being awkward, and can actually understand me


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#30745 19/06/03 11:50 PM
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Heh i dont worry about viruses to much... I reformat every other week and keep an active router firewall and av protection running.

#30746 20/06/03 02:20 AM
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damn thats a bada44 virus to get a screwdriver and remove 4 screws and pull 2 connections out of the back of it to remove your drive ........ i gotta get me that virus ... amybe it can sendme the hardrives to my email too? smirk


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#30747 20/06/03 02:31 AM
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why in gods name would u reformat every other week? wtf are u doing to your OS that uve messed it up that quick??? if your running an AV and a firewall it makes me wonder why u would be needing too...... I have personally met someone who loves to reformat her pc over any subtle error ..... once she bought a monitor for a second pc she had using xp ... and one using 98 .. the monitor worked fine on 98 but not on xp ... well she carried the monitor from the 98 to the xp machine and then vise versa ..... plugged em both in to the opposite systems and the one didnt work on xp ..... well her answer was to format the xp out and install 98 bak on this other pc .... im on the phone to her and i said ok do u wanna cary a monitor back over from where u had it and swap em back out taking 5 mins tops ..... or do u wanna spend your afternoon formatting and reinstalling stuff? logic would dictate 5 mins is alot less hassle than reformatting .....

things like that just scare me sometimes to think there is ppl that truly feel the need to do this type of thing all the time ... specially since on the xp if u format and reinstall in some cases u have to call windows to get a new activation key ... (note thats only on some setups not oem)

and yes before anyone posts saying the monitor should have worked ... i know ..... it was all because of resolution settings and htz missmatches in the video card from monior to monitor


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#30748 20/06/03 03:06 AM
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im annal, and i make reformatting fun. take ur pc to a mri center next time you want to format laugh It does wonders

#30749 20/06/03 05:30 AM
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i have no need to take my pc anywhere to reformat it ..... i can quite easily reformat any pc on the planet without anyones help ..... thats not hard at all ......

but why someone would feel the need to do it repeatedly is just scarey.....


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#30750 20/06/03 08:48 AM
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i meant removing everything in my hard drive, not my actual drive shocked


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#30751 20/06/03 11:37 AM
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...First of all it was joke to take it to an mri machine. If you didnt know what an mri machine does, it magnetically (with high powered magnets) can be used to scan parts of the body. If your comp got anywhere near the inside of an mri machine, every component, including ur hd would be wiped. On the other hand I really do format every other week. I like having a clean state. I dont really keep much of anything on my hd... and the things I do are just transfered over. I dont know why you think formatting is some big thing...

#30752 20/06/03 05:57 PM
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I would think that would take life off the drive to have everything removes and re written so many times to the same sector.


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#30753 20/06/03 07:02 PM
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ive been doin it for about 4 years on the same hd...

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