Quite urgent: Does formatting remove partitions?

[zapjb]

Sorry. But predictable.

[memnom]

it wont man, logical partitions will not be gone if u format WITHIN xp, if u do it from the Bootable disc its history.

Doesn't matter where you format from, as long as you format the right partition.

You can't even format the partition that you have your running OS on...a boot disk is needed.

im talking about complete reformat, u know deleting all the the Partitions by Pressing D and creating new ones. thats what im talking about.