It's perfectly possible to reinstall Windows on top of itself.

The only way you'd really usually want a full reinstall is if it's a brand new drive. In which case partitions have no purpose anyway.

Posted By: Arganth on December 2nd 2008 at 11:58:19

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Geek Salad question #9 - Hard Drive partitioning (General Chat) - Yellalee, Dec 2, 11:33:32
- Ha ha (General Chat) - Old Git, Dec 2, 11:40:48
  - I knew you'd reply as well... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Dec 2, 11:44:13
    - is the right answer (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Dec 2, 11:49:11
    - "I want everything to work the moment I take it out of the box." (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Dec 2, 11:47:14
      - which is why Macs is for Spacs (General Chat) - blindasabat, Dec 2, 11:51:40
        
        I like the ranty one SiH posted the other day (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Dec 2, 11:57:55
        
        ... (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Dec 2, 12:37:10
      - a phrase that's starting to pee me off "ready to run out of the box" (General Chat) - pants, Dec 2, 11:50:02
        
        plug and play (General Chat) - camcan, Dec 2, 11:57:39
- I think I read somewhere that Windows becomes inefficient with logical partitons larger (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 2, 11:36:12
  - Exactly. It's a waste of time. (General Chat) - Arganth, Dec 2, 11:43:47
    - But it makes it easier to reinstall the OS if necessary (General Chat) - Yellalee, Dec 2, 11:45:13
      - Not really. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Dec 2, 11:49:18
        
        Yes, very really (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Dec 2, 12:37:52
        
        It's perfectly possible to reinstall Windows on top of itself. (General Chat) - Arganth, Dec 2, 11:58:19
        
        Partitions have a purpose if you're really OCDish about organising your drive. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 2, 12:01:05
        
        Really should have min. 2 partitions - one for OS and software, one for (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Dec 2, 12:41:01
        
        Excellent - thanking you all (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Dec 2, 12:22:07
  - Me too, I read that (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Dec 2, 11:43:28
    - lollo rosso (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Dec 2, 11:45:25

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