Will "formatting" damaged hard disk...?

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CuteSniper22

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Jet said:
Then explain why, so I can learn...
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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
 
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.
 
Cromewell said:
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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That shouldn't be happening. The NT kernel is not prone to that kind of performance degradation. It is probably caused by loading plenty of applications and a messy registry. Uninstall what you're not using and use a registry cleaner to clean up the mess.
 
Oh I know where the problems are but at this point I'm not too keen on fixing all of them, and I hate registry cleaners.

Most of the problem comes from nearly every program and it's sister trying to add stuff to startup and not completely cleaning up after itself when you uninstall it. It's just I got lazy and stopped fixing everything a while back. Plus changing motherboard without doing a fresh install really screws stuff up.
 
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