Will removing the battery format the drive?

Hi,
My girlfriend has a Macbook unibody A1342. It was working fine until I updated it to mavericks. Noe the USB's don't work. So after trying everything (reset pram nvram etc etc) the only other option I can find is to remove the battery for about 60 seconds...then plug it back in again.
Will this mess her drive up? Will it mean I have to reinstall OSX?
I know it probably won't but I really wanted to double check first as I can't save anything from it to USB or external.
Thanks!!!

Well none of the above has worked so far. I ordred a powered usb hub that still doesn't get recognised. The hub itself is fine as it works on my macbook pro and also a windows pc I tried it on.
The hub will light up without the external power (usb cable only) when plugging it into either usb port on the macbook a1432. So this tells me there's definitely power getting in there. The macbook just doesn't show anything or detect anything plugged into it even with external power.
The iPhone doesn't charge either.
This is driving me crazy. All my girlfriend want's to do is be able to sync her new iPhone to her itunes so she can put music on it and back it up. Wifi option isn't optional at the moment as the iPhone has never been synced to this particular computer.
Thanks

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