What is the difference between a hard and a soft reboot?
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Often I hear doing a hard reboot (completely powering off a computer and restarting it) as opposed to a soft reboot (restarting by some command in the operating system). What, exactly, are the differences between them? And why is a hard reboot sometimes necessary? Is there a difference depending on…
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A "power-off-on-reset" may affect your hardware negative (e.g. HDD) if you do it very often or don't wait some seconds before switching on again (may affect your power supply). In general the major difference is that each and every component of you …
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