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- Feb 25, 2002
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- Calgary AB Canada
First I have read a few guides/stickies and not gotten the info I needed so I'm asking here. I have an 80gb drive split into 3 partitions C: D: E:. Now I am about to format the C: and D: partitions as I will be installing winxp. Now here are my questions. 1) If I type "format c:" will it only format the c: partition or will it format the whole hd including partitions d: and e: as I have critical files on e: that I don't want to loose? 2)besides better security/encryption is there any benefit to running an ntfs filesystem vs a fat32 filesystem?