There are 1 replies, with the last one on April 13 2015 at 23:54:59 by Seekforever
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A format is nothing more than setting up the filesystem unless you do a full rather than quick format which does a read-check of every sector on the disk. With todays large disks this can take a long time.
Back to your question. Formatting the partition before restoring an image is a waste of time. The newly created empty filesystem will be over-written with the filesystem contained in the image.
If you are restoring from a files and folders data backup (you posted in File Backup section of the forum) instead of an image then a filesystem has to be present on the disk to receive the files.
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A format is nothing more than setting up the filesystem unless you do a full rather than quick format which does a read-check of every sector on the disk. With todays large disks this can take a long time.
Back to your question. Formatting the partition before restoring an image is a waste of time. The newly created empty filesystem will be over-written with the filesystem contained in the image.
If you are restoring from a files and folders data backup (you posted in File Backup section of the forum) instead of an image then a filesystem has to be present on the disk to receive the files.