How many times can i install windows on my pc?

Imz

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Feb 14, 2014
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I've installed windows 7 on my pc several times. Actually i do that when the pc is affected by virus or its performance slow down. Re installing the OS makes the pc faster and smoother. Someone told me that doing so would cause decrease in performance of the pc eventually and the hard disc might crash due to frequent formatting. Is it true?
 
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Unless you're re-installing every day, I wouldn't worry too much about stressing the drive to early death in that manner. Regardless, a drive can go at any time, so always make sure anything you don't want to lose is backed up. Drives die through ordinary wear and tear all the time, but one drive may last two months and another of the same make and model two decades. If you started worrying about the things that can possibly kill drives you can go crazy.
Technically yes the performance decreases because you are installing programs to a clean OS. It will be eventually slowed down when you installed many programs. Hard drive formatting will degrade the hard drive but if you do it once every three months it will be fine.
 
Unless you're re-installing every day, I wouldn't worry too much about stressing the drive to early death in that manner. Regardless, a drive can go at any time, so always make sure anything you don't want to lose is backed up. Drives die through ordinary wear and tear all the time, but one drive may last two months and another of the same make and model two decades. If you started worrying about the things that can possibly kill drives you can go crazy.
 
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