hdd damages chances

[kalawati]

does frequent installation and unstallation of windows in laptops damages or affects the hard disk of the system ? If yes/no please give reasons.......

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Welcome, kalawati!

No, this specific procedure doesn't necessarily damage the drive but keep in mind that any hardware in your system will eventually fail. The best way to prevent any data loss is to back up your files on different devices off-site or on-site (e.g. external HDDs, DVDs, Cloud storage, etc.) and have at least two copies of your data stored in separate locations.
As long as you have S.M.A.R.T. enabled in BIOS, you should be informed if there are any bad sectors or concerning health of the HDD. However, I'd recommend you to use your HDD manufacturer's diagnostics tool to test the drive from time to time, just to make sure that everything is okay with it.

Hope I was helpful!
SuperSoph_WD

 

[shivababbli]

for all the HDD there is something called as write cycles, so you can format it a lot of times , say maybe 10000, but the health keeps on degrading

 

[Dashing_star]

No. It causes no wear of any significance whatsoever.

In classic (non-SSD) hard drives the magnetic material on a drive's platters might eventually "wear out" and lose it's ability to store magnetic charges after a ridiculously huge number of writes, but hard drives will fail long before that due to mechanical failure.

Classic hard drives suffer the most wear during spin-up and when doing excessive head movements. Formatting is no different than writing to the hard drive normally. In addition to that, normal usage writes to the same general area of a drive very often and requires lots of head movements whereas formatting will sequentially overwrite the entire hard drive, writing each location only once.

Whether or not it is SSD, the more usage of a drive will reduce its life. However a format once a month isn't going to do much compared to any other program.

I'd suggest figuring out why you are formatting and reinstalling once a month and trying to solve that.

If you 'like' to format and reinstall, then think about using a disk imaging software such as Ghost, or install Windows 7, create a system image, and then restore from backup, save yourself some headache.