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  • verb Present participle of reformat.

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Examples

  • So I'll be at MarsCon this weekend, and at some point it would probably also be wise to post my schedule (if, for no other reason than that the retyping/reformating of it would help me remember to go!)

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

  • Hopefully Ted Turner will catch wind of this and start reformating classic movies to work this way.

    The Latest Gimmick: Last Call, an Interactive Horror Movie, Will Phone You During the Film | /Film 2010

  • Even if the consumer uninstall Spore, and entirely deletes it from their computer, SecuROM remains a fixture in their computer unless and until the consumer completely wipes their hard drive through reformating or replacement of the drive.

    Happy Halloween from NPI! 2008

  • Even if the consumer uninstall Spore, and entirely deletes it from their computer, SecuROM remains a fixture in their computer unless and until the consumer completely wipes their hard drive through reformating or replacement of the drive.

    Gaming community turning against Electronic Arts over bundled DRM, malware 2008

  • Between formating and reformating league registration pages and trying to keep a tiny pet mouse safe, my dreams were just pure anxiety.

    February 6th, 2008 2008

  • I still have the copies on the hard drive but my A drive is apparently reformating my disks when I try to save to them.

    What the...? ARRRRGGHHHH!!! rabid1st 2005

  • I was reformating padjust.f after pulling it up in notepad to see how much of it I could still understand after decades not having seen any fortran.

    Hansen Code « Climate Audit 2007

  • Rove and his Political Operatives use a protocol for reformating 'the truth.'

    Republican Sex scandals old and new: The NeoCons Gaslight America. Why America and journalism needs standards 2006

  • I found on the forums that it was related to the Harddrives so i decided to format any partition that was ubuntu or a swap however after bringing over all of my data onto the ubuntu partion and reformating everything else it hasn't seemed to fix anything.

    Ubuntu Forums 2010

  • I went as far as reformating the 500GB model and starting from scratch and still I get it acting in funky ways -- like stalling (light stays on/no activity), not mounting (rare, but it happens), keeps writing non-stop, etc.

    ehMac.ca 2010

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