Formatting Additional (original) Drive

[RoseW]

Original Fat 32 drive is now a second drive (named Old Drive D) Windows
was deleted off that old Drive D ...only the Program Files are still
there which I referenced when reinstalling software into the new drive
C: (which is partitioned into C: and E
Checking out the Microsoft article
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/books/troubleshooting/pc/ls/042402.asp
The second step for directions has :
-if you're about to format a drive that has programs stored on it,
first uninstall the programs within Windows, and note that you'll have
to reinstall them after you're repartitioned the disk
Meanwhile the first step has just established that formatting removes
everything from the disk.

My intention was to clear the old drive by formatting it to be NTFS (to
use as a back up space or whatever) and rename it to be just D: I'm
just asking for confirmation on this action. I don't see the logic in
the instruction to uninstall the programs.

Rose

 

[DL]

Since the apps were not installed via the current win installation, just
format

 

[Bob Willard]

Original Fat 32 drive is now a second drive (named Old Drive D) Windows
was deleted off that old Drive D ...only the Program Files are still
there which I referenced when reinstalling software into the new drive
C: (which is partitioned into C: and E
Checking out the Microsoft article
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/books/troubleshooting/pc/ls/042402.asp
The second step for directions has :
-if you're about to format a drive that has programs stored on it,
first uninstall the programs within Windows, and note that you'll have
to reinstall them after you're repartitioned the disk
Meanwhile the first step has just established that formatting removes
everything from the disk.

My intention was to clear the old drive by formatting it to be NTFS (to
use as a back up space or whatever) and rename it to be just D: I'm
just asking for confirmation on this action. I don't see the logic in
the instruction to uninstall the programs.

Rose

The reason for uninstalling apps before reformatting is to eliminate
registry
entries (and, maybe, other pointers) to those apps since those pointers
would be bogus after the HD was formatted.

In your case that should not matter since the registry (etc.) pointers
will not
be to D:\app anyway -- unless you had hand-edited those pointers. So,
format
away.

 

[RoseW]

In Bob Willard <[email protected]> typed:
| RoseW wrote:
|
|| Original Fat 32 drive is now a second drive (named Old Drive D)
|| Windows was deleted off that old Drive D ...only the Program Files
|| are still there which I referenced when reinstalling software into
|| the new drive C: (which is partitioned into C: and E
|| Checking out the Microsoft article
||
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/books/troubleshooting/pc/ls/042402.asp
|| The second step for directions has :
|| -if you're about to format a drive that has programs stored on it,
|| first uninstall the programs within Windows, and note that you'll
|| have to reinstall them after you're repartitioned the disk
|| Meanwhile the first step has just established that formatting removes
|| everything from the disk.
||
|| My intention was to clear the old drive by formatting it to be NTFS
|| (to use as a back up space or whatever) and rename it to be just D:
|| I'm just asking for confirmation on this action. I don't see the
|| logic in the instruction to uninstall the programs.
||
|| Rose

| The reason for uninstalling apps before reformatting is to eliminate
| registry
| entries (and, maybe, other pointers) to those apps since those
| pointers would be bogus after the HD was formatted.
|
| In your case that should not matter since the registry (etc.) pointers
| will not
| be to D:\app anyway -- unless you had hand-edited those pointers. So,
| format
| away.

Okay. I figured it wouldn't matter but thought I'd toss out the question
just in case.
Thanks
Rose