I want to format restore my hard drive and then reload my LR4, will be my tags / keywords be lost when I reload LR4?

All the world done this before?

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You don't mention if you are using a mac or windows computer...

When you format your hard drive everything above is completely erased.

When restore you, you restore your operating system only (I'm assuming that you are using the OS restore files don't not restore a backup, because if you restore from a backup then it is not a lot of sense... you will be restore all the crust, too). If you have a backup on an external drive and on a mac, if you have a time machine backup, you can restore the operating system, and then start time machine backup and restore all of your applications and your files (less the system settings) and you'll be in good shape. It may take a while, but it works very well.

If you use windows, there is probably a similar procedure, but you should get comfortable with it before formatting (in both cases).

Tom

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