Yeah, follow zippy’s link.
But you cannot reformat a drive on which Windows is installed, while in Windows.
You do it from a command prompt, usually with your trusty CD in the drive.
If you insert the original Windows 2000 CD and restart your computer you’ll have the possibility of doing everything from scratch, and that includes formatting whatever drive you have.
However "I would like to reformat the 10 gig, since it hasn’t been reformatted ever since it was new, about five years"… Do you think you need to format your drive just because of that?
Er… Dave, Bart, …? …You there?
Well, with a new 160 gig drive, he may want some existing apps ported over to the new drive. If it were me, I’d reformat the smaller drive and reinstall apps on the 160 <shrug>.
I would like to reformat because over the years small fragments of programs have undoubtedly accumulated, since I have installed/uninstalled many freeware/shareware/spyware/piss-me-off-ware. Also, I got infected by the Klez worm in over 50 files! I cleaned it out, but there is still one that is quarantined and can’t be removed by Norton. My system seems real slow, and I would like to do a custom install, whereby I can install only the stuff I want installed.
Y,
why would you install the apps to the bigger drive?
Zippo, thanks for showing me how to access the help screen. I would never have been able to find it otherwise. You newbies really crack me up!
No problem! I am glad I could help 😀
Wasn’t sure if you would find it ’cause you are asking Microsoft forum questions on the Adobe Forum <shrug>
ZIP
PS> I have been in the industry for 6 years now. In terms of great oak years, I would only have been in the industry for less than a year. So I guess I am a newb. Arrrrgh! Just a squirrel trying to find a nut 🙁
Rasta,
why would you install the apps to the bigger drive?
Because I have more apps than a teeny 10 gig would hold. I’d rather have more free space on the 10 gig, defragged, for the Windows pagefile.
I’d have Winders and a few utilities (maybe) on my 10 gig; everything else I’d port over to the drive with more space. But that’s me.
YrbkMgr, o.k., I see. Part of my reasoning is that some of these viruses infect the .exe files, so I can always get a nice clean state if I ever get infected again. Maybe this isn’t a valid reason, but I need to clean that drive up anyways. Thanks.
How fast is the 10 GB drive? If it is a slow drive and the new one is an ultra ATA I would only use the 10 GB drive for local backups. Why use an old slow drive if you don’t need to.
Photo Help,
I am not sure how fast it is, but I’ll bet you’re right, that the ATA is faster. I didn’t think of that. Only problem is, I don’t have the ATA controller card installed, due to some problems I listed in another thread. Since the new drive is working sufficiently fast, I decided to leave it alone (running in slave position off of the pre-existing C drive). I am not a techi and don’t have any $$$$$, so I am learning through the school of hard knocks. I should get my diploma soon. I am leaving work now, so I will try all of the suggestions this weekend. Thanks for your help.
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Rastamon,
No problem. Get the controller card installed. When you got the new drive you may have noticed it came with an 80 Pin cable. My guess is you are still running off the standard 40 pin cable that came with your system as well. Make sure you put the new cable on when you install the card.
At the very least the new hard drive is running slower just by being slaved to old drive.
Personally I reformat every 2-3 years as a matter of course. Windows tends to slow down as it accumulates various rubish over time . BUT first make sure thate tou have all the program disca that you need to re-install and backup things like *.wav files and screensaves that you you want to continue using.
If your new disc is faster then consider putting your programs into a partition so that when you need to defrag it will not take so long. And keep the Photoshop swapfile in a seperate partition (or disc) to the windows swapfile
Richard
Richard,
Reformat every 2-3 years? You should buy a new computer more often than that B)
Some people install so much crap they don’t need that they should reformat every 6 Months. People also need to learn to do a clean install when they buy a new computer. Computer manufacturers put so much junk on computers. Some even replace the shell with their own, which could make your system less stable.
