Formatting a system too many times. Is it safe or not?

Answer 1

The hard drive will eventually belly up no matter what you do. There is NO good reason for having to reformat it tho unless you havent figured out what ducks up your PC in the first place! Lemme guess, you are one of the millions of believers that virus protection actually works 100 percent which by the way is a farce. 90 percent of peoples PC woes are created by the people themselves! File sharing sites (and I dont care what anyone tells you) are ALL infested with malware, freeware is infested with adware and spyware, and then you have the dummies who dont know enough to leave files that they dont understand alone!

Answer 2

Depends on what you consider safe?

1. Will it damage any hardware? Not likely, the parts will only do what they would normally do anyway in the course of normal use.

2. But the consequences of reformatting and reinstalling the OS is that you lose: time, settings, drivers, software. All the stuff you take for granted will have to be reinstalled also.

So I have to ask everyone who asks similar questions: Why do you think you need to reformat and reinstall?? What problem arre you trying to solver?? Unless you've had a catastrophe that has corrupted your system into oblivion, it's just wasting time and is only good for bragging rights.

Answer 3

Formatting a system purely means wiping the hard disk clean and starting over. It doesn't have a major effect on your system if any at all. It simply means that you're reinstalling. In fact, after you format, your computer actually runs considerably faster.

Answer 4

you could ru the risk of getting bad sectors. but it depends on what You mean by too many times. My computer has been formatted about a dozen times and it still works great. A friend of mine formatted his about 9 times in a week and his hard drive Got bad sectors in it. but it was still under warrantee. I don't know if it was a coincidence or not.

Answer 5

You can never format your system too many times.

Answer 6

there is one way to find out..it depends somewhat on the drive ..I have old 2gig (gasp) drives that have been formatted so many times I do not know ..but the only damage was caused by power failure or not shutting windows down properly....in other words it crashed..and created bad sectors..but they still work fine just less space. eventually they just wareout like anything else...

Answer 7

i hope not otherwise i'm in trouble.

Answer 8

i dunno, i done it lots of times