Is There Any Risk To Reformatting?

[Go_Oilers_Go]

Jus wondering.

[chunky_cheese]

Re: Is There Any Risk To Reformatting?

Back up your special data. Also, no.

[Go_Oilers_Go]

Re: Is There Any Risk To Reformatting?

What do you mean "Special Data"? And would I do that by saving it to a disk?

[chunky_cheese]

Re: Is There Any Risk To Reformatting?

Well, when you reformat, all the data is lost. ALL OF IT.

So if you want to keep maybe a special photo, or a project, you'll want to save it to a disk, jump drive, floppy(?), or any other means before reformatting. Other than that, there is no risk of physically damaging your hard drive during the process.

[Kagome]

Re: Is There Any Risk To Reformatting?

Just backup all the stuff you'd like to keep.

Edit: Ninja'd.

[Go_Oilers_Go]

Re: Is There Any Risk To Reformatting?

Ok. I've got none of that. So I guess it's all good, then.

Thx.

[MarukuAntoni]

Re: Is There Any Risk To Reformatting?

watch that you dont partition any drives unless you want to.

[Relambrien]

Re: Is There Any Risk To Reformatting?

Just make sure you have your OS install disc handy, and are willing to wait several hours for the drive to actually format. It takes a while to do, but there isn't much that you actually have to do once it gets started.

[Go_Oilers_Go]

Re: Is There Any Risk To Reformatting?

I've done it all. Everything seems good to me. Thanks.