----------------------------------- ohgeez_ Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:44 pm reimage + reformat ----------------------------------- 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? ----------------------------------- rdrake Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:09 pm ----------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------- Andy Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:15 pm ----------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------- ohgeez_ Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:34 am ----------------------------------- so in theory. which one is harder to do? ----------------------------------- rdrake Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:41 pm ----------------------------------- 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.