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The CMOS battery is more for protecting your settings (like BIOS and computer clock) in the event of power outages. Resetting the computer BIOS via CMOS battery removal should leave the files on your hard drive untouched, because they have already been magnetized onto the disk. The only thing that's going to mess up your hard drive is corruption from something like a virus, trauma like throwing your hard drive in the pool or wiping it by setting it on a nice, big magnet and turning it on. Pulling your CMOS battery out has other risks, though, and a lot of people screw their computer up by trying it without proper foreknowledge.

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