When you select an unallocated disk and click on Next, Windows will automatically format it for you. There's no need to do a full format to reinstall Windows.
If you really wanted to, then you could use the "Clean" or "Clean all" command at boot, and do the above afterwards to do so.
Yep mate and you an do the same with wipe it Partition Wizard I find it a bit quicker than the clean all but thats just my own preference - sorry Brink
When installing a new drive in Win 7 Pro 64bit...does it matter if you use quick format or the regular full format options ? Will windows automatically check the drive for errors and/or mark off bad clusters/sectors using quick format...or is it best to do an old fashion full format befor cloning...
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So, the title basically says it all.
This is what happened:
My 1TB external hard drive worked just fine. I used to store there everything. It was using NTFS file system.
Last week I connected it to my laptop and it was really slow when I tried to move or delete files from my pc to the...
Just received my two new Intel 320-Series and want to put them in one of my Sager notebooks, which already has an x25-m 160 boot drive. I did the v.1.92 f/w update successfully.
I want to use the two Series-320s for user data files only, not O/S boot drive. So do you recommend a “quick” or...
I am giving Fedora (Ext4) the boot from my 150G VelociRaptor and replacing it with Windows 7. What is the difference between a 'Quick' format and a 'Full' format. Does a quick format simply rewrite the FAT and a full format write 0's to the sectors?
The reason I ask, is that I am concerned that...
I recently loaded windows 7 Professional on my XP machine. Is there any way I can do a full format instead of what I assume must just be a quick format. I remember on XP that during the load process it asked you if you wanted to do a full format. Am I missing something here?
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