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ohgeez_
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 Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:44 pm Post subject: reimage + reformat |
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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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rdrake
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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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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Andy
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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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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ohgeez_
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:34 am Post subject: (No subject) |
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| so in theory. which one is harder to do? |
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rdrake
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject: (No subject) |
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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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