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Will reformats cause issues

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locutus24

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Was wondering if consistent reformats ruin a hard drive at all, like maybe degrade sectors of it to the point of loosing them possibly. Cause lately I have been fooling around with linux, and have done by now 15+ reformats in the last 3 days cause of various booting issues.
Just wanted to check this out cause my Caviar WD drive seems to be having issues, like periodically it will dissapear from my BIOS. (And dang't ubuntu wont install on it, the install keeps locking at 26% :confused: )
 
A reformat won't cause any more wear on a hard drive than regular read/write accesses of data.
 
Hmm.. Ok thank you for that, hard drive itself must be bad then cause some pretty whacky stuff has been happening lately (at least now I can happily format and format some more).
Edit: Now booting into OS in place 99 is placed all across the monitor :confused:
 
If you hook the HDD up to a Windows PC you can get HDTune and have it scan the HDD for errors. Do the standard scan and not the quick one. You can also get HDD diagnostics from the manufacturers website that run off a boot floppy.

http://www.hdtune.com/
 
Do you have LILO installed, or did you? Take a look at the man page:
Errors 99 and 9A usually mean the map file (-m or map=) is not readable, likely because LILO was not re-run after some system change, or there is a geometry mis-match between what LILO used (lilo -v3 to display) and what is actually being used by the BIOS (one of the lilo diagnostic disks, available in the source distribution, may be needed to diagnose this problem).
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Also, use Grub instead ;) It's better about recovering from errors and letting you fix things on-the-fly in my experience.

 
Alright well thank you all for the assistance, everything worked out and got solved. :)
 
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