Can someone explain to me why I do both and fdisk and format each time I change OS on a hard drive? I can see having to create new partitions on a new drive, but if I already had a Win OS on a drive, ...

Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...

Should I just fdisk and delete the partition and create a new formatted one then format it 7 times? Or should I really run some zero out disk wiper util? Can I just boot a linux boot disk and fill the ...