Does formatting PC many times make it worst?

sanfora Level 1

August 2, 2016, 9:01 pm

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Does formatting PC many times make it worst?

Formatting PC alot of times will that effect PC and make it slow and worst or make it better? How to protect my PC?

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ajlancer

ajlancer

Hi sanfora thanks for your question. I never hear if you format your computer hard disk so many times, it may getting any error or worst. I am using computer over some years and I frequently format my computer hard disk, while I am getting any problem for windows. And it also one time per month and more than 12 times in a year. But I never face such problem or worst. Rather, I know that if you format your computer hard disk at least 2 times in a year, any error or virus or any bad sector will be removed or fix.

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8 years ago

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Everett

Everett

Do you mean reformatting? I reformat my computers about every 3 months, 4 times a year and it doesn't appear to conflict with anything. The only issue I have is transferring all the important files to a USB stick, and downloading drivers again which is a pain and somewhat time consuming.

8 years ago

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Cristian

Cristian

Multiple formats may affect your HDD if you do it in excess. There are a lot of opinions out there. I think it depends a lot of the type of format. Keep in mind a HDD has a limited life time.

8 years ago

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Lynne

Lynne

I have someone reformat every now and then. As far as I know there have not been any problems? I don't do it myself so I honestly don't know what problems can be encountered with reformatting.

8 years ago

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CryptoGuru

CryptoGuru

I'm going to be honest with you here I have formatted phones plenty of times with out any issues whiped those baby's clean , as far as a pc goes in not too sure about what the effects could be of formatting it repeatedly but as far as the format function I believe it was created in order for you to reset every thing to default so you can run your computer like new completely erasing off the hard drive it shouldn't be too much different from formatting a phone I don't think you have to much to worry about to be honest

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Everett

Everett

I don't own a mobile phone, however I had to erase everything from my iPod Touch 5th Generation just once, and that was due to a specific application that would not delete.. i don't know why, but every time I tried to delete the app it would always come back. Very odd indeed.

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Corzhens

Corzhens

I had an experience in installing the operating system of computers in the office lab. Formatting a hard disk clears everything and they say it runs like brand new. But that’s only in terms of contents which are erased so it feels like brand new. But physically, the hard disk surface is not new anymore. I don’t think there is a relation between the wear and tear vis-à-vis formatting of the hard disk. If the hard disk is durable, it wouldn’t matter if you format it every once in a while.

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