Vista - Reformat And Completely restore

I need to know how to re-do my entire computer. Previous computers of mine
came with a step by step disc set to reformat and restore all the originial
data from when you bought it. But I don't see the option to do that with
Vista. I have the reinstall disc for vista, but that isnt going to delete
all of what has been put on there. Help?

"Nikki" <Nikki@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you have a restore disk from the computer's manufacturer just boot with
it and restore. It will return your computer to the factory condition.

In future please give information. What is the computer make and model,
version of Vista, x86 or x64, and whether Vista came preinstalled or is an
upgrade or full license of Vista?

Yes, I did one of these on a Vio laptop recently. Once you can boot to
the Recovery disc your manufacturer may have coded it's own entry into
the Vista menu options. If so select that and it will give you options
to restore the drive. If you need to back up data first attach an
external hard drive or memory stick and access dos prompt first from the
Vista menu and backup your data via Dos. Some OEM custom menu's might
give you a decent file manager in there to make it easy.
If your laptop is sensibly setup with a separate data/documents
partition then you can just restore the C partition. If not as is
usually the case then you gotta get your docs off it first. Dont forget
your outlook database if you have one, IE favourites and other data
files that might be on other parts of installation drive.

Regards
danep


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