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  1. October 5th, 2001, 02:43 PM #1
    chrise1963
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    Reformatting question

    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!

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    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.

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  3. October 5th, 2001, 06:47 PM #3
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    Thanks for the info! I thought it was not quite the same.

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