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So before installing Vista I get two options, delete or format c:\ drive.
If I do both will I still have a volume called c:\ drive. In what order can
I do both - delete before format or vice versa ?

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"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in
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> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:10:31 +0100, "hash" <joeblogg@spam.com> wrote:
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>>I'd like to know what is the difference between Delete or Format the
>>entire
>>hard disk or just a partition (Volume) c:\ drive ?
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> Further to what Richard Urban said; Format imposes a new, empty file
> system within a volume, whereas deleting a volume removes it and
> leaves the space unallocated.
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> IOW, Format isn't just about "deleting things", though deletion of
> existing files is a side-effect of creating a new empty file system.
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