What does it mean to format my computer?
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Formatting your computer means that you are purging or deleting all information that is stored on the entire hard drive. This also removes the operating system, so be sure to have a backup or the original disk before doing it in order to reinstall the operating system. The reason for doing this is typically the last resort to get rid of unwanted files such as viruses and spyware. However, many people do this frequently to clean and refresh the system of any unwanted programs and files, or to start clean.
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Formatting you computer certanly does remove all the data on your computer. But there is more to it than that. There are several formats such as: FAT(16), FAT32, NTFS, Unix2, Scratch, OS2 e.c.t What a format is; is how the data is arranged on the hard drive, how it is indexed, and how the files are split. So when you are re-formating you computer you are changing where and how your computer uses it's hard-drive.
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