RE: Formating Hard Drive

From: Andrew E (eckrichco_at_msn.com)
Date: 04/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 15:56:03 -0700

 Sure that would work but why the 1% partition,to reinstall and reformat,simply
 boot to xp cd,select install xp,new copy,the hd automatically gets reformatted then
 new copy of xp on the partition.Why FAT32 on the other partition,FAT32 is an outdated
 file system,if microsoft had its way,all file systems from the mfg would be in ntfs,a much
 more efficient way to go.

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