What's the difference?

[Zysoclaplem]

Stupid question but I will ask anyway. I've been formatting my hard drive every 6 months or so for a while, and it's that time again. Friend was over the other day and told me I should only quick format it, don't do the full format. What's the difference between a quick format and the regular format? It's Window XP.

 

[newnameman]

And why are you formatting your drive every 6 months?

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: newnameman
And why are you formatting your drive every 6 months?

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: newnameman
And why are you formatting your drive every 6 months?

And why are you posting in the wrong forum? :roll:

What's going on lately? All these hardware/software threads in OT? Mods asleep?

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Sorry. Sheesh. Just a question. and I do it because it becomes cluttered and slow.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
Sorry. Sheesh. Just a question. and I do it because it becomes cluttered and slow.

I think if you keep your hd devoid of useless programs/files and defrag often you can avoid doing reformats every 6 months.

 

[kag]

Well anyway you're asking. A regular reformat formats the whole drive and a quick one only erases the fat table.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: newnameman
And why are you formatting your drive every 6 months?

And why are you posting in the wrong forum? :roll:

What's going on lately? All these hardware/software threads in OT? Mods asleep?

Oh, the mods are here....watching....waiting...

*shiver*