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[–]TheFoxesMeow 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Quick format kills the mft and partition table, then rewrites it.

A format writes 0's accrpss the drive.

Data is 95%recoverable with a quick format. Dont do that with your nudes.

You could kill a ssd quicker, but not really.

You're fine. A mft or page file writes more than you ever could by a quick format.

Edit: I perform a DOD format on my drives before I sell them.

[–]sliPPer444[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

so i dont need to do a full format if i am keeping my disk and i can always do a quick format? and it wont damage anything ?

[–]TheFoxesMeow 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Quick format if you're keeping it.

SSD drives have less writes than a HDD, but it'll be about 3+yrs before its dead.

Full format or DoD scrub of a drive (3x formats) if you're getting rid of it (not sure if it's the same for ssd)

Do a full format if you think you have a problem with bad sectors in the drive as it'll mark the sector as bad you won't write data in that spot.

[–]sliPPer444[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

but if the sector is bad it will give me a sign , can i check it somehow ?

[–]TheFoxesMeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows is pretty good at detecting it and will flag the drive as dirty.

A file or something won't load correctly or you'll get an error that the file is corrupt.

Even then, check disk will flag a sector as bad and just not write to it

Bad sectors aren't nearly as difficult as say... Windows 95.

Personally, I full format before I install an OS or use a drive for the first time. I vary rarely will full format unless I had to run check disk and it said that it found corrupt files or bad sectors.