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lady	07-18-2004 02:28 PM

Bootdisk necessary when reformatting C drive?

Do I need to make a boot disk when I am reformatting C drive and reinstalling Windows XP? Or is the Windows XP cd sufficient?

yotta

07-18-2004 02:32 PM

The Windows XP install CD should let you format the drive.

ratbastid

07-18-2004 02:59 PM

Yep. Boot from CD, you'll be prompted to format the drive.

Lasereth

07-18-2004 04:40 PM

Make sure to make D: drive the first boot in BIOS! After the CD boots, format the hard drive using NTFS file format. FAT32 won't work with Windows XP.

-Lasereth

mikec

07-18-2004 08:53 PM

that is incorrect lasareth. fat32 works absolutely fine in XP.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...%26ln%3Den-gb=

NTFS the preferred file system for encryption and security, but it is not required.

Slavakion

07-19-2004 04:26 AM

Is NTFS also more efficient at storing data? Like NTFS > FAT32 > FAT

mikec

07-19-2004 05:09 AM

http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm

:)

Slavakion

07-19-2004 05:22 AM

Hey. so I was right! And I'm sure there's a perfectly good explaination, but 8.3 char file name? It just sounds funny.

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