How many times can you reformat a HDD? I've reformatted, partitioned, etc, etc, etc, at least over a 1000 times since XP came out on the same two HDDs. I get to a certain point of reformatting the drives a number of time, that I cant install any programs on my drive, so I have to switch my drive with a new one and everything works fine, but I can install XP fine. Right now I'm trying to install Symantec, when it gets halfway thru the install, I hear a small "click", Windows locks up and I have to reboot. So I was thinking my problem was reformatting my HDD to many times. I do this for testing purposes thats why I have done it so many times.