RedRival
10-04-2003, 07:40 AM
I have a bad habit of reformatting my hard-drives everytime some vital files or corrupt or if my startup/bootup is slow. I know this is the wrong way out, because it's more preferable to repair than to format. But is formatting necessarily harmful to a hard-drive?
Will formatting your hard-drive too many times result in a shorter hard-drive lifespan?
Will formatting your hard-drive too many times cause reading of data speed to be reduced?
Will formatting your hard-drive too many times result in the loss of some memory or space?
Will formatting your hard-drive too many times affect the overall performance of a hard-drive?
edit:
i'm using the KillDisk utility to do a clean wipe, everything will be destroyed, so no files will be left behind.
Will using a good disk formatting utility allow the hard-drive to function even better after a full OS reinstall than after a standard reformat?
http://www.klboard.ath.cx/index.php?showtopic=71042&st=0
by sharedholder.
thanks in advance for any good answers.
Will formatting your hard-drive too many times result in a shorter hard-drive lifespan?
Will formatting your hard-drive too many times cause reading of data speed to be reduced?
Will formatting your hard-drive too many times result in the loss of some memory or space?
Will formatting your hard-drive too many times affect the overall performance of a hard-drive?
edit:
i'm using the KillDisk utility to do a clean wipe, everything will be destroyed, so no files will be left behind.
Will using a good disk formatting utility allow the hard-drive to function even better after a full OS reinstall than after a standard reformat?
http://www.klboard.ath.cx/index.php?showtopic=71042&st=0
by sharedholder.
thanks in advance for any good answers.