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09-05-2008
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| Vista Business | how to format hard disk hi, i have a sata hard drive running windows vista 32 business how would i format the hard drive completely and start again? i did a reinstall last weekend but it would not give me the option for format from the DVD, it just gave me a "windows.old" folder which wasn't really what i wanted. thanks |
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09-05-2008
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: how to format hard disk Hi Steve, and welcome to Vista Forums. If you have a Upgrade version of the Vista installation DVD, then when you get to step 12 in this tutorial, select the Custom Advanced option to be able to format the drive. Clean Install From Upgrade Vista If you have a Full version of the Vista installation DVD, then when you get to step 9 in this tutorial, select the Custom Advanced option to be able to format the drive. Clean Install with a Full Version of Vista Hope this helps, Shawn |
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09-05-2008
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| Vista Ultimate Edition x64 | Re: how to format hard disk  Quote: Originally Posted by stevosowl  hi, i have a sata hard drive running windows vista 32 business how would i format the hard drive completely and start again? i did a reinstall last weekend but it would not give me the option for format from the DVD, it just gave me a "windows.old" folder which wasn't really what i wanted. thanks I think, if you run the CD and on the boot press F8 or ESC you boot from the CD and then you format the Computer... You need to click to display Drive Settings or something when you are going to choose the partition that you will install the Vista in |
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09-06-2008
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| Vista Ultimate Edition x64 | Re: how to format hard disk Quote: Originally Posted by AlexRD Quote: Originally Posted by stevosowl hi, i have a sata hard drive running windows vista 32 business how would i format the hard drive completely and start again? i did a reinstall last weekend but it would not give me the option for format from the DVD, it just gave me a "windows.old" folder which wasn't really what i wanted. thanks I think, if you run the CD and on the boot press F8 or ESC you boot from the CD and then you format the Computer... You need to click to display Drive Settings or something when you are going to choose the partition that you will install the Vista in Run the Extended Disk Cleanup, it has the feature to delete old Windows. Extended Disk Cleanup |
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09-06-2008
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| Vista Ultimate 64 bit | Re: how to format hard disk At the screen where you are asked where to install you OS, select the HDD, click on advance then click on format then you are all good to go. |
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