Hello John,

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>What is the wisdom these days in setting up a new hard drives? Should one
>use a disk manager and get the disk partition and formatted real quick or
>use the old dos fdisk and format? Assuming that your bios can handle the
>larger capacity hard drives.

>Is there any advantage in *NOT* using a disk manager?

  As to my personal experience I do not see any real disadvantages, except
if you have Windows 95B+ or Windows 98, you are not able to get large disk
support (FAT-32). Otherwise it is the same in the long run.

Regards,


Tim Lider
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