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Wiping 5308 on a dual boot system?

Posted: 03-25-2006, 05:14 AM
Tekguru (Daron Brewood)
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Silly question, but I wanted to check just in case.

I've installed 5308 as a dual boot system with MCE2005 which works fine,
but I've had to install that build 3 times so have ended up with 3 windows
folders:

Windows
Windows.old.
Windows.old.000

Now with the new build released I want to wipe that partition completely
and start with the new build afresh.

So am I right to just format that partition from within MCE2005 (if it will
let me)? Or is there a better way to do it?

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Re: Wiping 5308 on a dual boot system?
Posted: 03-25-2006, 07:23 AM
Just format it from within Windows XP MCE 2005, there will be no problems,
just as long as Windows XP is the primary operating system and Vista is on a
logical drive.
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"Tekguru (Daron Brewood)" <tekguru@tekguru.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Silly question, but I wanted to check just in case.
>
> I've installed 5308 as a dual boot system with MCE2005 which works fine,
> but I've had to install that build 3 times so have ended up with 3 windows
> folders:
>
> Windows
> Windows.old.
> Windows.old.000
>
> Now with the new build released I want to wipe that partition completely
> and start with the new build afresh.
>
> So am I right to just format that partition from within MCE2005 (if it
> will
> let me)? Or is there a better way to do it?
>
> --
> Tekguru (Daron Brewood)
> MS-MVP/Mobile Devices
>
> Webmaster: UKs largest Pocket PC Site
> http://www.4WinMobile.com

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Tekguru (Daron Brewood)
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Re: Wiping 5308 on a dual boot system?
Posted: 03-25-2006, 08:00 AM
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:23:41 -0800, Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:
> Just format it from within Windows XP MCE 2005, there will be no problems,
> just as long as Windows XP is the primary operating system and Vista is on a
> logical drive.
Thanks Andre, that is what I hoped, formatting just started NTFS 4096
allocation unit size - will probably take ages though as it is a 31.9Gb
partition
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