How many times you can format your Hard disk?.

By | March 7, 2012

 There exist a myth regarding the number of times you can format your hard disk

Most of the people believe that formatting the hard disk multiple times will

reduce the life span of the hard disk.

 

During the process of normal partitioning and formatting , the Directory structure

FAT , BR and MBR area of the hard disk is cleared and nothing beyond that happens

with your hard disk.

 

So formatting is less taxing on your hard disk than copying all your movies .

 

This myth was deliberately created by hardware professionals in early times so that user

Will not try to format the hard disk each and everyday and make their life miserable.

 

 

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