I created a partition on my Hard drive so I could store all of my personal and important data (Backups).
My question - If I was to format my hard drive, would it delete the partition that I made for my data?
-BARROS
Hard Drive Partitions
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 02:17 PM
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I created a partition on my Hard drive so I could store all of my personal and important data (Backups).
My question - If I was to format my hard drive, would it delete the partition that I made for my data?
-BARROS
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 02:30 PM
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No. When you format a drive (using the Windows or DOS format utility), you do not lose any partitions. You only lose the data on the partition that you are formatting.
A low level (or zero fill) format however is different. This will remove all partitions on the drive & hence, all data as well.
A low level (or zero fill) format however is different. This will remove all partitions on the drive & hence, all data as well.
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Posted 18 March 2006 - 02:37 PM
BARROS
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Thank you for your help,
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