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You must be talking about the Urban Myth that Microsft has 100s of thousands of employees, so they couldn't possibly be responsible for trashing a HDD.
That's like Apple saying, You're holding it wrong.
That's no myth, urban or otherwise lol. But it takes a lot of effort to trash HDD by using OS alone, it takes a lot of specialized SW to change firmware in a HDD and apart from electronic or mechanical breakdowns it's very unlikely it could be done by accident. I remember trying to salvage data from some half dead HDDs by changing controller boards on them and flashing same FW on it to match serial numbers so it would work and I can tel you, it was a lot of work.
I would say continual BSODs and freezing etc can put a bit of strain on an SSD and do quite a bit of damage.
I had a few spare hours this afternoon and tried repairs with TP and Windows 8.1, didn't work. Tried installing Windows 8.1 straight over the top as a new install, didn't work, formatted one partition and tried again, didn't work. Formatted all 3 partitions and installing, didn't work.
Fully removed all partitions and installed again, this time it worked, Windows 8.1 and fully updated. Have rebooted a few times and run some apps, no BSODs.
No matter what anyone thinks, this was caused by 9879 and nothing else, end of story.
That certainly may be, it was a large update and changed almost if not all system files judging by it's size and time and way it updated, looked almost like a new or installation or at least like regular installation repair. I'm resigned to it being a beta OS and that all kinds of problems can be expected, that's why it's only my secondary OS. Can't really put all my eggs in that basket, might develop a hole !!!!
Just keep a drive for it alone when installing Windows and while updating, both, 9860 and 9879 screwed up (temporally) my dual boot so I had to fix it. Next time I'll disconnect other dives while doing that.