Losing a hard drive is not all bad. After procrastinating about reformating a drive loaded with unusable, disconnected, unwanted files, it affords the opportunity to start clean. The downside is finding the software for the programs you want to reinstall & the time to do it.
The way I load a drive with what turns out to be garbage, I should reformat every 6 mos. or so. Also, the software for reinstalling programs is filed under "misc."
Really well organised.

Bob S.