new hard drive installation

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Roy Colson

I am replacing a Maxtor 6E030L0 that Maxtors diagnostics tells me that it is
failing.

I will replace it with a Seagate Barracuda ST389911A.

My computer is a Dell Dimension 2350 running XP Home.

I intend to do a clean install of windows on the new drive. My question is
am I better off using Seagate's Disk Wizard or my Windows reinstallation CD
to partition and format the new drive.

Thanks,

Roy
 
Before you even start installing - what size is the drive and what version
of XP is on the CD? If the drive is larger than 137Gb then the XP CD must be
SP1 or SP2.
 
I have heard that xp install format uses a inefficient file cluster size if
using NTFS
but I wouldn't really know the difference, I would use the xp install cd for
formatting
and install simply due to only using one cd, and I'm familiar with it.
 
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