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Format partition before installing Win7, or not?
I have two SATA 250GB hard drives. Drive0 contains C: and J: - Drive1 contains D:, E:, F:, G:, H: and I: When I install Win 7, I intend to install it as the primary OS on drive C:. During the setup phase of any OS, I always delete the C: partition and then create a new partition in its place within the installer. What I want to know is, should I also format the partition after recreating it? I am worried that formatting the partition will cause me to lose the information on the other partitions. I managed to do that many years ago much to my great loss! I don't want anything like that to happen again. Thanks for your help.