Can someone explain to me why I do both and fdisk and format each time I change OS on a hard drive? I can see having to create new partitions on a new drive, but if I already had a Win OS on a drive, ...

I know you can't reconvert NTFS to FAT32, but I presume this is to preserve data. I new install after repartitioning and formatting should not be a problem, right?<BR><BR>I moved a 10G HD formatted in ...

Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...