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Partition without Formatting
Greetings all.
Is it necessary to format a disk before creating a partition on it? I just reorganized my storage and backup scheme which involved wiping (secure erase) three hard drives then creating partitions on them. All three were formatted as NTFS before the wiping but I did not actually format two of them again before re-creating the partitions.
Is this a problem? They are working fine but want to know if there are any potential problems or performance issues from doing this. I used either Easus Partition Master or Mini Partition Wizard on the two that I didn't format and Windows Disk Management on the third which is where I saw the "Quick Format" option as part of the partition creation process, hence the concern.
Thanks in advance!