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I seriously doubt it would do any physical damage to any hardware. It would basically just make your hard drive do a lot of work, but their motors are designed for 100% duty anyhow.
My question is why on earth would you need to reformat so much. Tom
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well i can say i do it a bit less than that, trust me
once i formatted my promary hd 3x in 1 day.
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ha i dunno why but i find it quiet satisfying when i have to format due to problems i cant fix, probably because iknow it will fix it
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