Frequent formatting of hard disk---good or detrimental?

Answer 1

Of course, the more you use a device with mechanical parts, the quicker it will wear out and start causing problems. However, from a practical standpoint, it really won't make that much difference. On the positive side, by reformatting your hard disk and then reinstalling your operating system and applications, you will be making your overall operating environment more stable and probably faster. As you surf the web, install and uninstall appications, etc., there is a lot of "junk" that accumulates on your system that is not removed by even the best utilities. Re-freshing your environment by a format and re-install, in essence, gives you a fresh start and is a good thing to do periodically, especially if you keep your system for many years like most of us.

Answer 2

If you're refering to standard formating, then there is no problem. HDD are made from good quality materials, so the risc of bad sectors appearing after this is minimum.
Even at low level format (writing the etire hdd with 0's) the risc is low, but higher then the first case.

Answer 3

hai dear
freqent formatting of u r hard disk may effect on its life time...
it may goan bad....if u start quick format every time den der is 80 %chance to go bad ur hard disk wit in a short time.


ok bye
sasi

Answer 4

It should have no unique effect on the hard drive.

Formatting is little different than any other read/write disk operation.

Answer 5

it's detrimental as formating causes bugs to occur

Answer 6

you should nt format the hard disk frequenly it might crash because of excessive load

Answer 7

i use to format my seagate ATA100 40GB frequently and after a few months windows got slower and slower, had to change.

Answer 8

it depends what amount of data u have stored in the hard disk.......

Answer 9

no risk in quick format.

Answer 10

Not required in normal use.