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there's nothing like starting off with a clean slate whether it's a new car right off the lot fresh sheets in your hotel room bed or a pardon from the state governor for your fourteenth speeding ticket but your driving record isn't the only thing that could use a fresh scrubbing reformatting the storage drive in your computer or mobile device could make your life easier as well but what exactly is formatting well just like a database is kind of useless unless it has some sort of system for organizing all of your data a disk isn't very useful unless it has a file system where I can tell your computer where everything is physically located on the drive when you format your hard drive SSD USB stick or whatever else the disk is first partitioned meaning that the disk is given a beginning and an end just to mark the areas where the operating system can access it then a file system is placed on to the disk to allow it to organize its contents usually NTFS for Windows Drive or fat32 or exFAT for a removable flash drive but formatting does more than just prepare a disk for use so if there is anything on the disk before formatting it gets a race during the formatting process because formatting involves erasing the tables that give locations to all of the files on the disk meaning your operating system will see all the previous data as free space that can be overwritten and although this is obviously a problem for people who want to reform how to disk because it isn't working properly but would also like to keep the data it also means that reformatting is a great way to completely nukid rive really quickly oftentimes this is done when a computer is pretty infected by particularly determined malware which is difficult to remove with anti-malware applications and can leave lasting damage to crucial operating system files even if you do manage to get rid of it by formatting an infected drive you nullify its ability to execute any malicious code and since formatting erases the boot sector that tells your PC to load up your operating system it's also a great way to defeat the more exotic viruses that infect the boot sector directly which can give you a truckload of problems formatting is also a good way to remove pre-installed software from a computer you bought off the shelf often referred to as bloatware since it tends to hog up system resources and often provide quest at best utility bloatware can be difficult to remove completely so many people who purchase pre-built pcs especially laptops like to format the included drive right out of the box and do a clean operating system install and if you're suffering from windows bloating where windows just kind of piles up background processes and registry errors over time formatting can serve a useful method for spring cleaning do keep in mind however that formatting does have some limitations doing it to permanently erase data beyond recovery is just a bad idea as formatting doesn't obliterate this data it just marks it as free space and it can be overwritten later on and can still be recovered by using third-party software there's a bunch of them out there so using an overwrite utility such as dban or Derek's boot and nuke is just a much better idea formatting also won't help you if the problem you're having lies within your PC somewhere else such as in the case of a super corrupted BIOS or a terrible virus that gets into your freaking firmware and while formatting can give you a clean slate to work off of it doesn't make your drive like new though a full format in Windows can check your drive for bad sectors to at least tell you whether or not you might need a whole new disk drive to solve your problems but formatting like we said earlier remains a very valuable tool if you're drowning in malware bloatware or whatever just remember it is a bit of a nuclear option so don't push the red button unless you're sure it's okay to scorch the earth or in this case just your data Squarespace is the 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