- Windows registry
- Posted by cam and flo on June 2nd, 2004
Silly question;
Does formatting erase the registry as well?
Just thought I'd ask.
Cameron
- Posted by Martik on June 2nd, 2004
"cam and flo" <nospamehcamandflo@amtelecom.net> wrote in message
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Yes, It essentially erases everything on the partition. Why?
- Posted by Toolman Tim on June 2nd, 2004
"cam and flo" <nospamehcamandflo@amtelecom.net> wrote in message
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Format will do the job very well <g>
- Posted by Plato on June 2nd, 2004
cam and flo wrote:
No. Formatting doesn't erase any files. All it does is format thus
making the space where your files are to be availble to be overwrittin
with new data.
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- Posted by fuctifino on June 2nd, 2004
"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
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delete the partition then.
make a new one then f ormat.
- Posted by Pool Champ on June 2nd, 2004
Defragmenting your HD does the above, formatting will erase all your files
PC
- Posted by Plato on June 2nd, 2004
fuctifino wrote:
Deleting a partition does not erase any files. All it does is what is
does ie delete the partition.
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- Posted by ProfGene on June 2nd, 2004
Since formatting erases everything on the hard drive and Window's registry
was developed as you added programs to Windows and did other activities that
involved the registry all of the info there will be erased. But since you
will have to reinstall your programs it doesn't much matter.
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- Posted by Plato on June 3rd, 2004
Pool Champ wrote:
Incorrect.
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- Posted by Unknown on June 3rd, 2004
For all practical purposes it's true.
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- Posted by Toolman Tim on June 4th, 2004
I must agree...it's been a hell of a long time since I tried to un-erase a
hard drive <g>
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- Posted by Plato on June 4th, 2004
Toolman Tim wrote:
Of course for the average person, a format or fdisk will make the files
unavailable.
One can do a simple test tho. Format/fidsk whatever lets say on a 40 gig
drive. Then do an image of it. Guess what, you'll have a 40 gig image.
All fdisk/format does is make the space available for files/data to
overwrite your previous data.
