lady

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?

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yotta

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

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ratbastid

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

Lasereth

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

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mikec

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.

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Slavakion

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

mikec

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

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Slavakion

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.