Can someone explain to me why I do both and fdisk and format each time I change OS on a hard drive? I can see having to create new partitions on a new drive, but if I already had a Win OS on a drive, ...
I think you should be fine, but I can't say for sure. I know on a Gateway PC I worked on ~14 months ago for a dorm-mate w/Gateway "GoBack" software that the drive had a proprietary format on it ...