tinoymalayil 0 Report post Posted May 19, 2009 Hi Friends,please mention whether I need to deep format my hard disk drive for the performance?or quick format is good or not? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
k_nitin_r 8 Report post Posted May 19, 2009 Hi Friends,please mention whether I need to deep format my hard disk drive for the performance?or quick format is good or not? Hi!A regular format is better in that there's a complete check for bad sectors on the storage medium. A quick format, on the other hand, skips this check and simply makes the storage medium available for use. If you were concerned about performance for formatting your hard disk once or twice a week, I'd say a quick format takes much less time. A regular format is a better choice if you're formatting every quarter. Recognizing bad sectors still does not guarantee that you will not lose any data - you could still have a hard drive crash or a media failure so you ought to make frequent backups of your data just in case. These days a 1TB external disk is quite reasonably priced and can store pretty much all the files you have on your computer.Regards,Nitin Reddy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frozen.fish 0 Report post Posted May 19, 2009 There is not a big difference really just as k_nitin_r said a complete format will simply check for bad sectors and quick format will just simply delete the files. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
buherath 0 Report post Posted May 20, 2009 Go with full format. I think it's better. Because like when you delete a file from the recycle bin, that is what happens when you quick format. The files on your hard drive are there but the hard drive just give the permission for the files to be overwritten. But a full format erases all the files. So a full format is always better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aloKNsh 0 Report post Posted May 21, 2009 you should try full formatting once every 5 times formatting your hard disk with quick formatt but listen formatting is not a good option for your hard disk so avoid as much as you can but then also you can format your comp's hd with quick format option.all the best Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 3, 2010 it depends your need.Quick Foramttin Is Good Or Bad For The Hard Disk Drive?It all depends on your need to Format hard diskIf you have some bad sectors then you need to Full format the Disk otherwise a quick format will do the needful. Quick format just mark the hard disk memory as unused and don't actually format the disk but on the other side a full format is done the actual formatting and flush all the data inside the disk. -reply by pick the trick Share this post Link to post Share on other sites