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[Smug Mac User]
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I believe that you have a redundant adjective there.
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Only a couple virii are capable of physically damaging a hard drive and IIRC the manufacturers have corrected the flaw that allowed it quite some time ago (seeking outside of normal track range and beating the heads against the stops). Nowadays nothing a new partition and format can’t fix.
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What do you call losing everything you had on the HD, OS included? Yeah, sure, I can and did re-format one or two of the three, but till then they sure as heck were “fried”…in my parlance anyway.
So if the argument you present is merely a semantic one, fair 'nuff.
Submit my penance.