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**belfasteddie** · 11-21-2008, 09:07 PM

Windows partitions the drive during installation. Normally it will ask you how you would like the drive partitioned. It also asks what System (format) you want to use, Fat32 or NTFS.
I said normally, I don't know about Dell!

11-21-2008, 09:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
belfasteddie Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Belfast N.I. Posts: 1,551 OS: Puppy Linux 4.12	Re: Newbie: Format first? or Partition first? Windows partitions the drive during installation. Normally it will ask you how you would like the drive partitioned. It also asks what System (format) you want to use, Fat32 or NTFS. I said normally, I don't know about Dell!