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Originally Posted by CurrentlySober
I usually do it each night before I go bed, so I can start afresh in the morning...
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I totally understand you. I am the morning type. Sometimes I reformat the drive twice each morning... On good days do one in the evening too...
Anyway, formating hard disk with today's file systems is not something which is necessary. FAT and FAT32 were file systems which had benefits from re-formating. NTFS is much better and with defragmenting from time to time, you can do enough maintenance on file system itself.
Windows is story for itself, but something for registry clean and maintenance, antivirus and malware plus taking care could make your windows install once in computer lifetime. If is necessary to install windows again, it's enough to do it in new directory
Free space is big problem. Adobe products make huge cache (and plenty of people here are using at least one of their product so you know what Bridge can eat in few days only). Some other software eat space too. Couple of day I found that NetLimiter made 5GB of logs in some 15 days I was using it (last year when I was in place where connection was breaking when upload was not limited). it was lost for year or so. I found it by pure coincidence. so knowing where software and what it's doing is maybe better thing than formating the drive and starting all over again