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Old 06-24-2004, 02:41 PM   #1
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Unhappy A clean instalation?

i was wondering when your install windows it ask to format or make a partition but there are four options make it fat32 or the other one fast or normal speed

if i want to make a clean installtain i was choose normal speed and it does not matter?
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Well, if you created a partition on a hard drive with no partition, or removed a partition and created a new one, then you have to completely format it (normal speed), because there is no file system so the whole file system has to be created.

If there is already a partition on the hard drive with a file system and you just want to re-install windows on it, then you can use quick format. As there is already a file system only the table of contents needs to be cleared so that the partition will be empty.

Just use quick format. If quick format is not possible Windows will tell you that.

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Old 06-24-2004, 04:39 PM   #3
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I recommend a full format with NTFS.
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Old 06-24-2004, 06:24 PM   #4
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is there anything that you can notice between a clean installtion and a crappy one
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