Will "formatting" damaged hard disk...?

CuteSniper22 · 12-04-2006, 02:41 PM

I serach some forum... and realized this words.

"the head damaging the disk by constant formatting"

Anyone agree this sentence? Yours opinion very important to me.

**apj101** · 12-04-2006, 02:48 PM

no its false for all intents and purposes

StrangleHold · 12-04-2006, 02:55 PM

Never heard of it! I guess if you format your drive 5 times a day you could wear it out faster?

flash527 · 12-04-2006, 04:17 PM

I've formatted my WD 40GB probably 10 times or more, and it's still fine.

Jet · 12-04-2006, 04:19 PM

It should be fine, however, if a hard drive was constantly formatting, it would wear out, not because it was formating, but because it was being used 100% for weeks on end. You should format your hard drive at least once a year to get rid of the extra files you don't need anymore.

SirKenin · 12-04-2006, 05:11 PM

The plastic platters might shatter. mwahaha. Or was that plastic flying off the recording arm? I can't remember now.. Something like that.

Excessive usage will wear a drive out eventually, but holy, you have to have it on a 100% duty cycle for a year to do that, and I can't see anyone in here putting their drive through that kind of torture.

**apj101** · 12-04-2006, 05:16 PM

Quote:

You should format your hard drive at least once a year to get rid of the extra files you don't need anymore.

have to disagree there.

Jet · 12-04-2006, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by apj101

have to disagree there.

Then explain why, so I can learn...

**apj101** · 12-04-2006, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jet

Then explain why, so I can learn...

its more of a personal choice, it just takes a while to rebuild the machines, too much down time... backup are not upto date enough to comprehensively restore all essential files. The general hassle of re-formatting.

And provided you look after your machine, keep rough file to a minimum, defrag when needed, scan for malware/adware/virus' frequently then there is no drop in performance within a year... but like i said... it's personal

**Cromewell** · 12-04-2006, 06:07 PM

I'm going on 3 years without a format myself. I've gone through the russian roulette of a motherboard change with the same windows install a couple times. The only thing that is pushing towards a fresh install is the general slowness that XP gradually gets as your install gets older.

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CuteSniper22 New Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 22	Will "formatting" damaged hard disk...? I serach some forum... and realized this words. "the head damaging the disk by constant formatting" Anyone agree this sentence? Yours opinion very important to me.

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StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In a realm of unknown Wonders Posts: 7,084	Never heard of it! I guess if you format your drive 5 times a day you could wear it out faster? __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 800 4gb PNY XLR8 8800GT Spinpoint F1 500gb. Too bad stupidity isn't painful.

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flash527 Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 62	I've formatted my WD 40GB probably 10 times or more, and it's still fine. __________________ Laptop = Red Desktop = Blue AMD FX-60 Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86 running at 3.0Ghz 2 GB DDR2 2GB Corsair dominator ram nVidia 7900 GTX Nvidia 8800 GTS 17" Widescreen Thermaltake Shark case Thermaltake Big water 745 liquid cooling system WD 150GB Raptor

12-04-2006, 04:19 PM	#5 (permalink)
Jet Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 5,285	It should be fine, however, if a hard drive was constantly formatting, it would wear out, not because it was formating, but because it was being used 100% for weeks on end. You should format your hard drive at least once a year to get rid of the extra files you don't need anymore. __________________ Macbook/Intel Core Duo 1.83Ghz/2GB DDR2 667/60GB HD/OSX 10.4.11/160GB 3.5" Firewire External/160GB Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini External/

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SirKenin banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,711	The plastic platters might shatter. mwahaha. Or was that plastic flying off the recording arm? I can't remember now.. Something like that. Excessive usage will wear a drive out eventually, but holy, you have to have it on a 100% duty cycle for a year to do that, and I can't see anyone in here putting their drive through that kind of torture.

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Cromewell Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Age: 24 Posts: 10,085	I'm going on 3 years without a format myself. I've gone through the russian roulette of a motherboard change with the same windows install a couple times. The only thing that is pushing towards a fresh install is the general slowness that XP gradually gets as your install gets older. __________________ You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here. I must plug a couple comics because they are good :D: www.ctrlaltdel-online.com www.userfriendly.org

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