Formating Hard Disk when Textmode Mass Storage Drivers are used

[Ascii2]

When special mass storage drivers are used during Textmode of Windows 2000/XP setup (either integrated into setup or by using "F6" key) and an NTFS partition is to be created, must the partition be created by Windows setup or may it be created by a third party partitioning tool (like Kroll Ontrack Disk Manager 10.46) prior to Windows setup and have Windows correctly install?

Edited November 10, 2008 by Ascii2

[Tripredacus]

Using an unattend, you can specify whether or not to format the drive, so yes.

[Ascii2]

Perhaps my question was not correctly understood. A typo existed (word "and" was missing).

The typo has been corrected and the question has been further adjusted for clarity.

I want to know if formatting a drive that would require special mass storage drivers in Windows 2000/XP Textmode setup could occur before running Windows setup without have problems with the setup of Windows.

Edited November 10, 2008 by Ascii2

[Tripredacus]

Whether it is formatted or not, you will need to have the Mass Storage driver in your Windows install. Having it formatted ahead of time doesn't change this requirement. It is so Windows can see the drive in the first place.

[Ascii2]

I realize that mass storage drivers are necessary for Windows setup to detect a mass storage device.

I had thought that a mass storage driver contains information on how to read and write data to a mass storage device, not merely just provide information on how to access the device. If what I thought is the case, then it would be possible that partitions created by Windows setup could be different than those created by another partitioning utility with the same partitioning ability (the difference would be due to drivers selecting where to write to disk differently).

[Tripredacus]

It should be the same as long as you are using the same filesystem for both methods.

[Ascii2]

Understood. Thanks.