Format question

OT.. I hate to say you're one of the only people that makes me feel welcome on this board

You are welcome, I'm sorry you if you feel otherwise.





I think Windows does better after a clean all (wipe) because all the old Windows code and all the old drivers have been over-wrtitten, a format does not remove any data at all.

   Note

Contrary to popular belief, doing a format with Windows 7 does not remove any data at all, it just checks for sector errors and marks the space to be over-written as needed, all the data is still there including all the code from previous/failed installation attempts.

Yea I was guessing the quick format seems to remove nothing and let that data influence your reinstall

I still use diskpart every time.. and advise people to do it too

Hello again mate, sorry it took me so long to say hello! :)