Reformatting help

tehtom

tehtom

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Hopefully my new parts will come today and I plan on using my old hard drive and reformat it first. I'm just wondering should I wait until its in the new PC and reformat it or reformat on my old one and just not install the drivers? I will be getting a new motherboard, processor, memory and graphics card.
 
Use the format/partition facility that is built into the Windows XP/Vista setup routine.
 
Yeah I know how to do it I'm just wondering can I save time and do it before my new parts arrive and just not install the drivers of the old parts?
 
tehtom said:
Yeah I know how to do it I'm just wondering can I save time and do it before my new parts arrive and just not install the drivers of the old parts?
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If you want to use your old Hard Drive as your O/S drive then just put it in your new system and off you go. Dosent really matter if you format it in your old pc or new it wont make a difference.

Though if you want to use it as a storage drive, you will have to wait till its in your new system and you are able to boot into windows then format it wintin windows.
 
stickroad said:
If you want to use your old Hard Drive as your O/S drive then just put it in your new system and off you go. Dosent really matter if you format it in your old pc or new it wont make a difference.

Though if you want to use it as a storage drive, you will have to wait till its in your new system and you are able to boot into windows then format it wintin windows.
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Thanks for your help, I'll think I will reformat on my old system to get rid of all the crap that has built up and give it a new PC feel when my new parts arrive :)
 
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