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vista formatting
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vista formatting
Monday, April 7, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Posted by Moe D
(15 messages posted)
hi everybody , i want to format my computer, i have windows vista ultimate installed,
and i want to format it entirely, im wondering if you guys can help me out with this
i'd be grateful, thanx alot, cheers
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re: vista formatting
Monday, April 7, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Posted by Deb
(908 messages posted)
Why do you want to format?
Is there a problem with your PC?
Are you wanting rid of Vista so you can install XP?
Some more info would be really helpful...
On Monday, April 7, 2008 at 12:49 pm, Moe D wrote:
>hi everybody , i want to format my computer, i have windows vista ultimate installed,
>and i want to format it entirely, im wondering if you guys can help me out with
this
>i'd be grateful, thanx alot, cheers
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re: vista formatting
Monday, April 7, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Posted by Moe D
(15 messages posted)
whoops sorry , i just want to format to improve performance and all, there's no problem
in vista no , and im going to reinstall it again, its working fine my pc , just need
to format and install again , no problems with vista ,thanx !
On Monday, April 7, 2008 at 1:12 pm, Deb wrote:
>Why do you want to format?
>Is there a problem with your PC?
>Are you wanting rid of Vista so you can install XP?
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>Some more info would be really helpful...
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re: vista formatting
Monday, April 7, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Posted by Steve
(19187 messages posted)
The link is Googles first pick.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918884
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re: vista formatting
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 2:51 am
Posted by tanstaafl
(9 messages posted)
What are you going to reinstall from?
If you have a retail copy of Vista and install again from the CD's/DVD's it should
give you the opportunity to format and/or repartition your hard disk during setup.
I don't know what happens if you re-install from a recovery partition like DELL and
HP provides with new PCs, rather than giving you a backup copy of Vista on CDs.
You could create a bootable rescue CD such as SystemRescueCD and use its tools to
format the disk. GParted knows how to format a NTFS drive.
http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/partition-and-image-your-hard-drive-with-the-system-rescue-cd-292972.php
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
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