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Should I reformat Windows partition before re-installing?
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I have Win 7 Home Premium SP1 on Dell Inspiron 17R 5720, 4 GB RAM.
I have Windows and programs on C: partition. Data is on E: partition.
I want to do a clean re-install of Win 7 SP1, and leave all the data on E:
My question is: Should I format the C: partition before re-install?
I saw this post by Alejandro85 here:
Delete or format C drive when reinstalling Windows?
My problem is that I'm so old I remember when disks used to frequently develop bad sectors during use. These bad sectors were marked in the FAT during formatting, so that they would not be used by DOS.
Is this no longer true? :)
Thanks.
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