Re: suggestion on formatting Win2003 hard drive for rebuild

From: Chris (Chris_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:41:03 -0800

I'll get it a try thanx.
Do you if FDisk is on the Win2003 server CD? Is that how you delete the
partitions?

"Miha Pihler [MVP]" wrote:

> Chris,
>
> I am a big fan of clean install compared to e.g. upgrade. In my experience
> there was nothing left if I first deleted all the partitions and after that
> created new ones and formatted them. Same goes for Windows 2000 and XP.
>
> I agree that system partition can vary depending on role of the server.
> 10-15 GB can be field up quite fast (specially with time after you add
> patches, service packs...). This "rule" may not apply in your case specially
> since you have pagefile in separate partition...
>
> --
> Mike
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Security
>
> "Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1440D7C0-2F70-4AD4-B818-8D35667E2FBA@microsoft.com...
> > My experince with XP, Win2K, etc. are that if you let it do it, it dones't
> > do
> > it very well. It leaves traces of the old OS and files. Are you saying
> > that
> > it will 100% remove all traces of the OS. I've been there and after
> > rebuilding another Win2000 server it doesn't and I was forced to start
> > building it all over again. And the Win2K workstation is even worse, dead
> > boot files left, etc.
> >
> > I want to get all the drive space back and clean it 100%.
> >
> > Also, why not less than 10-15G?
> >
> > I've been creating; c: = 8G with OS, D: = 20G for files, etc. and E: = 6G
> > for page file. It's a 36G SCSI drive, xeon 2.8, 1G of Ram, running as a
> > lot
> > of things (DC, DNS.DHCP, IIS, SQL Server) but all local for development.
> >
> > thanx.
> >
> > "Miha Pihler [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Chris,
> >>
> >> Just use Windows 2003 CD and boot from it and start installation process.
> >> During first few screens, you will have an option to specify where (which
> >> partition) to install Windows 2003 to. Here you can delete all old
> >> partitions, create new ones and format them. I usually don't recommend
> >> creating system partitions smaller then 10-15 GB.
> >>
> >> Note: to boot from CD, you might have to change your BIOS boot order
> >> settings. Put CD in first place and e.g. HDD in second place.
> >>
> >> I hope this helps.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mike
> >> Microsoft MVP - Windows Security
> >>
> >> "Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:E471DADB-7970-4361-9E16-7AF34CAB251E@microsoft.com...
> >> > I've come to terms with the idea to wip clean my Win2003 Server to
> >> > rebuild
> >> > it. Issue with promoting it to DC causing way too many issues!
> >> > So what is the bets way to low level format the hard drive so I can be
> >> > 100%
> >> > sure it's clean. I do not want to have the issue with multiple boot
> >> > records,
> >> > etc.
> >> > I used to get an old win98 disk and find format and do this.
> >> > What tools does MS offer, etc?
> >> >
> >> > Thanx!
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

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