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Post Date: 2008-12-22
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    Posted: 22 Dec 2008 at 2:25pm
So I need more space and have formatted my old os drive after cloning it to another. Do I need to do anything else like partitioning? Or am I good to go.
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that should be it.

Edited by DST4ME - 22 Dec 2008 at 2:27pm

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cool thats what I thought thanks.
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Yeah its just for storing music and movies on got my os on games on a 300gb raptor
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you don't need to partition to install OS, you just need To format the drive which the windows CD will do before installing OS, the whole drive will be partition 1 automatically when you format.

The only time you need to do manual partition is if you want to have partitions.

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HM I have never partitioned any of my drive other then the one windows does during formatting and installing.

I go thru hard drives like candy.

when windows formats your HDD it automatically partitions it to partitions one, adding a second partition to it would be pointless, repartitioning the already made partition is pointless.

you can't have an os on a drive that has no partition, windows does not install till it formats and partitions the drive.

I don't understand how you had a OS drive installed on a unpartitioned drive.

if you look at your boot.ini you will see it always starts with disk (o) and partition (1).

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I think I was very clear about the fact that os will due the partition, so I'm talking about the os.

also partitioning your HDD has nothing to do with HDD life so I don't get your comment of
I see why you go thru HDDs like candy

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