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Best Practices for Preparing Disks

When you prepare a disk for partitioning, it is recommended that you back up

your data and format your volumes with the NTFS file system. Because deleting or creating partitions or volumes destroys any existing data,

be surę to back up the disk contents beforehand. As with any major change to

disk contents, it is recommended that you back up the entire contents of the

hard disk before working with partitions or volumes, even if you do not plan to

make changes to any of the partitions or volumes.

Many features in the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems, such

as file and folder permissions, encryption, large volume support, and sparse file

management, require the NTFS file system format. Be prepared by formatting

your volumes by using the NTFS file system.