Does frequently formatting and reinstalling an operating system damage a hard drive?
- by Closure Cowboy
I tend to format and reinstall my operating system fairly frequently (about once a month). I apologize for my lack of technical terms, but I do not perform a "full format" (the type of formatting that zeros-out the existing data). Regardless, I know that most modern operating systems consume several GBs of data.
Is doing this particular damaging…