How do I format vista 64bit ?

I've been having driver issues up the arse, and i want and end, a fresh start!

I have looked how do format but its either something is missing or its totally different for me.
I wack the windows disk in, boot from that. Then windows pretty much reinstalls, never giving me the option to format the hard drive. Maybe its a really small button that if you miss it you cant go back, but i cant find it.

My pc is a custom build so maybe that has something to do with it?

Any ideas?

If all else fails I might just throw this hard drive out the window and buy a new one.

Welcome to the Forums! You are wanting to format your Windows drive, and start over? Let me get this right: you boot from the install DVD and hit install, and the screen where it asks where to install never comes up?

Jonathan King said:

Welcome to the Forums! You are wanting to format your Windows drive, and start over? Let me get this right: you boot from the install DVD and hit install, and the screen where it asks where to install never comes up?

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not quite the install screen comes up, i follow it, and it creates a folder where it dumps all my files naming it 'old windows'

Do you mean Windows.old? Are you hitting Install?

yeah Windows.old, guess im hitting install. dont think theres any other options there?

There should also be a couple of option at the bottom, one of which is "Repair your computer". After you hot install, what is the very next screen you see?