About formatting a hard disk

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My laptop won't even start up, it's on a boot loop. I tried recovering it but it failed. My dad told me it needs formatting and re-installing a new windows. He said that formatting will only apply to the disk that has the windows (eg: my windows is installed on local disk D so it will only format D w/o touching local disk E or C). Is this true? Or do i have to lose ALL my data i have (which happen to be stored on E) bc i have stuff there that i NEED and i dont have them backed up or sth. Thank you.
 
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Phillip Corcoran
Formatting is a per-partition process because you have to specifiy a partition letter.

However, you should still back up your data to another drive as that's only common sense.
Having your data stored on just one drive is not a wise place to be, don't you realise that a hard drive can fail?, indeed it definitely will fail one day, and that day could be tomorrow.
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Formatting is a per-partition process because you have to specifiy a partition letter.

However, you should still back up your data to another drive as that's only common sense.
Having your data stored on just one drive is not a wise place to be, don't you realise that a hard drive can fail?, indeed it definitely will fail one day, and that day could be tomorrow.
 
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