Computer Science Canada reimage + reformat |
| Author: | ohgeez_ [ Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:44 pm ] |
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im curious. i always thought that the process of reformating and reimaging is the same thing. But recently, i heard they were different Is there a difference between the two? |
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| Author: | rdrake [ Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:09 pm ] |
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Reformatting rewrites a filesystem over the old one, and allows an operating system to utilize that disk. Reimaging, as I recall, writes an image block for block to the disk. This copies everything, including the filesystem and the file format. |
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| Author: | Andy [ Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:15 pm ] |
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when you reformat a disk, you essentially strip away the partition tables, and then rewrite them in. when you re-image a disk, you're taking a precompiled image (collection of files) and writing the contents of the image onto the disk. |
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| Author: | ohgeez_ [ Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:34 am ] |
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so in theory. which one is harder to do? |
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| Author: | rdrake [ Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:41 pm ] |
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Reformatting is easy as can be with the tools available. Reimaging requires more work since you must copy over an existing image to that particular computer's HDD. |
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