Printable View
Hi all.... First off, I am a programmer, so please bare with me as I ask a Hardware question! We are going to be reformatting our hard drive on one of our servers (Windows NT) monday. Our hard drive is partitioned into 2 drives. A coworker of mine has stated that if we just delete this partition, we will in a sense be reformatting. Is this a correct statement?Does deleting a partition do the same exact thing as reformatting? Thanks in advance for any information you can offer!
Chris
After deleting a partition, you will have to create a new one in the free space, then format. So, no, it doesn't do the same as formatting, only formatting does. If you had free space that was previously a fat16 partition, and inserted a fat16 on that free space with something like ranish partition manager, all the data would still be there.
------------------
Please help us help you by posting which distribution, version, and desktop manager you use.
Thanks for the info! I thought it was not quite the same.
Chris