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Posted by John-Erik | Filed under Uncategorized
Though for the health of your MS system you should always format before loading a new OS on any given partition…
Not ever has that been true. A reformat is never necessary. You may be mistakenly believing that with NTFS it helps due to the fragmentation issues, but that is resolved (and your system performance improved) by using Diskeeper. Might I also add that an install on a fresh partition is very fragmented, whereas if you defrag regularily. Indeed, with the introduction of NTFS5 even the MFT will self-shrink when you delete a bunch of files from a full volume (NTFS4 usually left the MFT stay at the same size).
umm…. formatting without re-partitioning always seems to wipe the boot.ini for me. i dont know what you’re talkin about with it bein in the boot sector.
I can repartition and reformat any of my Windows 2000/NT/.NET 2003 systems and the boot.ini will still reflect the presence of the old operating systems. I had to do it just 3 weeks ago (3 Windows NT 4.0 Server and 2 .NET Server 2003 installs on the same box while troubleshooting).
