reformatting hdd

[ddrazen]

is it healthy if i reformat my hdd frequent?

im planning to upgrade my windows 8.1 to windows 10 but i want a clean format

i recently install my windows 8.1 in my pc about 1week ago 

[ddrazen]

can someone help me please

[Isocadia]

Formatting your drive does not harm the hardware in any other way than writing regular data does, you can format your drive as often as you want without any problems

PS: Questions like these are better to be posted in the Troubleshooting section of the forum. You have a bigger chance of getting an answer there

[Captain_WD]

is it healthy if i reformat my hdd frequent?

im planning to upgrade my windows 8.1 to windows 10 but i want a clean format

i recently install my windows 8.1 in my pc about 1week ago 

 

Hey ddraen,

 

As @Isocadia explained, reformatting a partition or a whole drive simply erases the partition table and does not harm the drive in any way so you are free to do it as much as you want. This technically does not erases data from the drive but rather removes the table that shows the drive where the data is and it simply appears empty. Then the drives overwrites the new data over the old one. If you truly want to erase the data I would suggest looking at software that performs "writing zeros" function which basically puts a 0 in every bit on the drive (this does take a long time to complete and chances of getting data back are close to none).

 

Captain_WD.