Vista - Clean Install

Hi
Just updated from XP Pro to Ultimate, I thought that when I booted from the
Vista disk it would do the same as XP, that is I could format the drive and
the install on a clean drive, but it just installed and kept my XP in
windows.old.
I have deleted windows.old as it was using to much space, as there does not
seem to be a format in Vista whats the best way to format then install
Vista, do I boot off my XP disk and format then take it out and boot from
Vista or is there a better way

Thanks

"Dajan" <dajan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e6oOj$SBJHA.4368@xxxxxxYour right, VISTA does not do a detailed disk analysis first thing as XP
does.
As the VISTA install proceeds in loading file etal, it finally gets to
looking at the
drive and it asks question about 'shrinking the disk' and partitions.
I believe ( I don't remember all the details ) that it does any necessary
clean up when you re-parftition even if request just one active partition.

Henny

Isn't there a format option at the start of the Vista install update
disk, as in the full install version? Never used it myself but I suppose
for an update you would not be looking to format?


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Hello Dajan,

This tutorial will show you how to do a clean (formated) install of Vista from a upgrade version of Vista.

Clean Install From Upgrade Vista

Hope this helps,
Shawn