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Old July 11th, 2007, 02:56 PM
svr_2007 svr_2007 is offline
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Question Why do I have to format my hard drive?
So I wanna install Vista Ultimate which I just bought to my local disc E. I want to have it so I can choose from either Vista or XP at startup.

But I have files on drive E. I want to move them to the F drive. My question is why do I have to format drive E if it's already empty once I move the files to drive F, and what does formatting do?

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Old July 11th, 2007, 03:16 PM
JabberMan JabberMan is offline
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Your hd must be clean before installing a new os, so you have to format it.
Formatting deletes all data from hd (if you simply delete data, it can be recovered).
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