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Solved Is FDISK For Windows XP The Same As FDISK For Windows 7?

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I have a two year old computer which originally had Window 7 installed. It was very troublesome so I cleared everything from the hard drive using DBAN, I have wiped the hard disk clean and now want to run FDISK followed by FORMAT to create a good clean disk structure.

I have both FDISK and FORMAT software on a bootable disk which was created with Windows XP. Can I use those programs on the computer on which I want to reinstall Windows 7, or must I have FDISK and FORMAT software that were created with Windows 7?

Keep in mind that my “old” computer uses XP and runs just fine. The computer on which I want to run FDISK and FORMAT will eventually have Win 7 installed.

Thank you.

Robert Kunz

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      You don’t have to use FDISK cause, during Win7 installation, you have the option, to customize hard drive partitions.
      Here you can delete and create partitions, and let Win7 do the format for you.
      Then you can continue the normal installation of Win7.
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