Does reformating hurt your computer???

[Darcwolf777]

Does reformating hurt your computer in any way???
Thanks for the replies!

 

[catalyst1]

Nope, not at all.

 

[Darcwolf777]

thanks!

 

[Dishdog]

if anything it helps your computer(software wise).

 

[wozelbeak]

it dont hurt your computer, but you will lose all of your items on the part of the hdd what you reformat.
woz

 

[NLAlston1]

I believe that the above posters are absolutely right. I have never been very computer literate, and my previous computer was a Gateway that came with a restoration disk which afforded easy reformatting. Whenever I experienced a problem that I couldn't, otherwise, counter from, I would format in a heartbeat. I had really become known as the format king . I can honestly say that I had formatted that computer no less than eight or ten times in the space of a year - with no seemingly ill effects from it. In fact, I have often heard (in very knowledgable circles) that defragging a harddrive should be more of a toil concern that reformatting.

But just for the sake of it, I thought to include something that I found (just tonight) in Dan Gookin's 2nd edition of Troubleshooting your PC For Dummies book.

 

[TRDCorolla1]

I do believe in that concept of not reformatting the drive, but software glitches, incompatiblity, missing files, or corrupt software/drivers in the long run forces us to do just that.

 

[iamroot]

When I was using Windows I had to do regular reformats. Quite often. Windows has the nasty habit of slowing down to a crawl after some time.

 

[catalyst1]

Yeah, sometimes it's just easier to start fresh instead of trying to get everything back to normal.

 

[iamroot]

Especially with Windows.