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Re: Delete or Format Hard Disk - What's the difference ?
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:53:48 +0100, "hash" <joeblogg@spam.com> wrote:
>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 ?
What is C: at the moment?
If you delete "C:", then you won't have a partition to format, so the
next thing would be to create one, and then format it.
"Partitioning" refers to the allocation of physical hard drive space
to particular partitions and (in the case of MS OSs) logical volumes
within these. This is like putting up walls to create separate rooms
inside a house. "Formatting" is the process of creating a file system
within one of these volumes, and is more like laying down the
floorboards within a room you've created in the house.
Modern tools tend to do both processes at the same time, which makes
things seem a bit blurry to those who didn't grow up with the old DOS
era Fdisk vs. Format dichotomy.
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Who is General Failure and
why is he reading my disk?
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