On 24 Jul 99, at 14:45, Hains wrote:

> Has anyone had to deal with "clearing out" the Hard Drives of an entire
> network (ie: Formatting them) I was wondering what the best way of going
> about this may be. The network is big and it is really becomming very
> disorganised and I would like to perhaps speed the network up a bit by
> getting rid of usless files. We also intend on deleting the NOS, basically
> everything. The entire network was backed up. So that it can be fully
> restored should sumthing go wrong and no data will be lost.
>
> Does anyone have tips or suggestions on how we should procede from here ?
> Whats the best way of going about this ? Is it at all feasible, should we
> rather just keep the network going and keep replacing the HD's and CPU's
> with faster ones to keep the speed from dropping ? I'm also concerned
> about applications that have been upgraded and patched over the years and
> these patches and upgrades are starting to cause problems with the NOS and
> other applications is there any other way of getting around this without
> formatting ?
>
> We are using Windows NT(SP5), with compatability for Win95 laptops

  It's pretty unlikely that accumulations of "cruft" or "furch" on individual
machines are slowing the *network* appreciably, except perhaps on heavily-
used servers.  It might be useful to set up a clean/up-to-date install of NOS
and common apps on some central machine and roll that out to individual
machines, but it doesn't sound like there's any need to try and make that all
happen at once.  Replacing HDs is a convenient time to work this in on a
station-by-station basis.


David G

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