hard drive formatting

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by myk291, Jun 3, 2007.

  1. myk291

    myk291 Member

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    does reformatting your hard drive repeatedly harm or damage your hard drive because i reformat mine like every once a month. i am just curious because there might be a limited number of reformatting cycle for a hard drive and that mine would suddenly crash. thanks guys!
     
  2. Indochine

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    Formatting a hard drive is no different from any other sequence of write operations, from a longevity point of view. Once a month is certainly OK. I am slightly curious to know why you are doing this, however.

     

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