reformatting/partitioning

[tommyboy123x]

after "starting over" on my hdd by reformatting it several times, i was wondering if there would be any long-term effects to reformatting over and over and repartitioning. So for future knowledge, is it bad to do this?

thanks

 

[Ste]

Well, not really. If you do it a ton!!! then it could shorten the life of the drive, but for the most part you can do it as many times as you need.

 

[TheMajor]

You can format thousands of times. Windows "full format" wil also do a checkdisk, so it would kill your drive earlier than a regular format wich only takes a few seconds. But you can still format thousands of times or more.