When I do that I back up everything TWICE and verify the backup
First I consider switching to MacOSX

then I reinstall the OS from scratch, reformatting the drive
then I reinstall ALL programs

then I get my personal data from backup until I have everyting as it was befor windows pucked on me


Peter

>Hi Russell
>You said:
>When's the last time you reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled everything? It's a Windows machine, after all. I'm not sure what could be going on, but if my machine starts getting flakey and I haven't reformatted in awhile, I start considering that possibility.
>
>I was wondering if you have any methodology for determining what has to be reinstalled?
>
>Currently I've got 4 pc's and a laptop all connected by a peer-to-peer network. Old projects are kept on "old" pc's, and that works fairly well. The only one I want to reformat the hard drive on, is the one with vfp9 on it. However, it also has a lot of other developement stuff on it. The weeding out process boggles my mind.
>Would appreciate your thoughts on this.
>Bill Wright