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zaqualung

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Format C:
« on: August 15, 2005, 08:03:01 AM »
may have asked this before, but didn't see the answer if it came.

I've been reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling XP. now someone tells me that XP is set up in such a way that you don't quite reformat the whole disk when you reformat C: (Not a quick format option, but the whole format option is what i'm doing, btw).
Is this correct. have microsoft gone and done anothe rof those. this is A, but it is really B, typoe of things??
i.e., where the process is not exactly what they want you to believe it to be?
is there a small portion of my jhard drive that is likely NOT being reformatted????

Sidewinder



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Re: Format C:
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2005, 09:12:13 AM »
That small part of the drive that you think is not formatted is most probably being used by the file system that the format command installs.

Sounds more like another urban legend. ;D
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