Since the second post was 12 minutes after the first, why bother with the
spanking?

You responded authoritatively to someone asking for help, initially posting
something
wrong, then posted something contradictory without acknowledging the first
incorrect
assertion. I read the tread, the poster still seems confused, and thought you
still needed
the "spanking".
You were hours late in correcting my spelling. Show me in the
first post where I used the word partitioning?

This has nothing to do with "spelling". You should have posted that the
programs are run before you partition, on a blank HDD. You said that they are
run before you format. Dead wrong. I'm not critical of your spelling of
partition--I'm critical of the fact you failed to use that word instead of
format, so that your advice would have been correct.

Dale