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Old 06-06-2004, 04:07 AM   #1
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Can I damage my hard drive with too much reformatting?


I've had bad experiences with linux and I must have reinstalled and reformatted the hard drive like 20 times. Can I somehow damage my hard drive by reformatting too many times?
 
Old 06-06-2004, 05:03 AM   #2
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No, not really. Formatting is just a matter or writing to the disk and they are probably supposed to handle being written to.


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