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Lots of reformating damage hardrive
Name: firelite Date: December 14, 2003 at 02:41:33 Pacific OS: Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon XP 2800+/512 D
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Right i got a question for all u people, we'll its not me asking the question but its a question from my mate he asked me but i dont have a clue!!
The Question is: If you keep reformating your hardrive does it damage it at all, or does it damage n e fing else!!
Name: Hooner Date: December 14, 2003 at 02:43:43 Pacific
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It wont damage your HDD, but it will shorten it's life depending on how often you do it.
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Response Number 2
Name: firelite Date: December 14, 2003 at 02:53:54 Pacific
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how much of its like it shorten!!
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Response Number 3
Name: firelite Date: December 14, 2003 at 02:55:33 Pacific
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and how much reformats is it before u start loesing life big time!!
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Response Number 4
Name: Hooner Date: December 14, 2003 at 03:50:07 Pacific
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Stop panicking, it's not a dramatic decrease in life. A good life for an HDD is 5 years, if I were to format it say, once a month, then you could probably knock a year, maybe a year and a half off it's life.
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