what is the effect of formatting the computer very frequently?is there any bad effect on computer on harddisk?

Answer 1

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Increasing the amount of activity on your hard drive always has a negative effect on its lifespan. However, it takes a lot to have any noticeable impact. For example, if you defragged your hard drive every other day or week, then that would be one example of overkill and would definitely put a hurt on the drive.

Formatting is a different story. It is possible to do a quick format (the standard not "full") which only deletes the partition table information. That's like tearing out the table of contents in a book and writing new information over the old pages. Quick formats are harmless and cause very little disk activity. If that's all you're doing, I wouldn't worry about it (though I would question why).

Consider getting a good backup utility like Acronis TrueImage. With a program like that, you can easily restore your drive to a working image that you have saved when you start to notice a performance drop or spyware/virus infection.

Also realize that hard drives are cheap. Buying a replacement at less than $.50 per gigabyte makes them expendable.

Answer 2

I've had my puter now close to 5 years. It's a Hp with P4 and 60 gig hard drive. I have totally reloaded new windows completely numerous times. I'm assuming the hard drive is wiped clean each time I do so. I do it personally because I'm to cheap to buy the software when the 30 day trial periods are exhausted. So I reload windows every month. It also resets my Norton subscription every time as well so I never run out of subscription to download updates. My puter runs great never a problem. But even if it did develope a problem with the hard drive. I figure I can buy a new one for what $25 bucks ?.....penny change

Answer 3

I assume you are talking about "formatting the harddisk"; "formatting the computer" does not compute. ;) Shouldn't hurt the disk. But why do it? It erases absolutely everything. If you want disk erasure, there are tools for such. They do a more thorough job of hiding any traces of what you had.

Answer 4

no longer possibly. as quickly as an OS is put in, a 'verify disk' could be run to envision the actual platter surfaces are no longer turning out to be corrupt (a organic prevalence besides). stressful drives fail for many motives on their own; approximately 10% the 1st 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. "Panama..." is right; abode windows updating boosts reload circumstances to the community of 8 hours...and not assorted relaxing. in case you're able to desire to do it lots (not sure why...) look into 'slipstreaming' which mixes assorted those secondary approaches & updates into one disk, making the activity swifter. Google for extra advice.

Answer 5

Hi there.

I often do a system clean/wipe every month or so, but that's using a ghost image of my hard drive. But that's almost the same as formatting.

There's not much of a bad effect, other than more wear and tear (as you're formatting the entire surface of the hdd) on your hard drive platters and on your actuator arm (armature).

Hope this helps

Answer 6

Not quite so, unless if your hard disk was really used so very often.

Even we can say that we shut down properly our pc, it can still develop bad sectors due to continuous usage...

Even formatting frequently can develop bad sectors on your pc.

But i'm not saying that it'll lead to the destruction of your HDD, just make sure that you dont do it so often...

Answer 7

There is no negative effect of formatting your hard disk frequently.

Answer 8

when ever u format your hard disk system make Chang in logical representation of disk so it is not harmful. portion u see is logical so they don't exist physically .