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Would it be bad for your hard drive to format too often?

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From Leo's mailbag:

> From: A Computer User
> Sent: September 7, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: Would it be bad for your hard drive to format too often?
>
> Leo,
> Would it be bad for your hard drive to format too often?

Nope. A format is just a special kind of write, and writing to the
hard disk happens all the time when it's in use.


Thanks for asking,

Leo

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