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Incorrect shutdowns, such as pulling the power cable can indeed damage both hardware and software. Especially applications which at the time of the interrupted shutdown were writing data to their configuration tend to become corrupted. Especially if data was being written to the hard disk is this bad for the hard disk. Further any power drop or surge can be damaging to your PSU, mainboard and the rest to a lesser extent.

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