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re: formating one or two partitions
Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 4:23 am
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Posted by borg (2664 messages posted)


You only need to format C:, leave D: alone. Use D: to save whatever files you need from C: like documents, mail store, address book etc.


On Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 3:41 am, Bharat Bhatnagar wrote:
>my hard disk has two partitions, namely C and D. the operating system is loaded on
>C. i want to reinstall the OS on C after formating the hard drive.
>
>is it necessary to format both C and D in order to reinstall the OS on C, or formating
>only C would suffice?


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formating one or two partitions (Bharat Bhatnagar: Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 3:41 am)

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*re: formating one or two partitions (mojo7819: Sat, Apr 9, 2005, 4:14 am)
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