reformat hard drives for windows vista help?

Question

I just got windows vista and I was trying to reformat my hard drives. i placed the windows vista cd in the cd rom and setted my bio to boot from cd just like I did to reformat my hard drives when i had windows xp. but for windows vista they did not ask me to delete my existing partitions and to create new ones. they just ask to install the the windows. so is there something i didnt press or what? i don't want to overlap. i just want to delete the hard drives and install brand new ones. can someone help me?

Answer 1

you need to have a operating system on the hard drive for it to work you can't install vista from dos what i did was -installed a fresh copy of xp pro and then put vista over the top its the only way

Answer 2

Use a Windows 98SE setup disk and run fdisk to delete the non-dos partition on the drive that will get rid of Vista. Set 2 partitions , a dos partition and a non-dos partition. Install 98 first on the dos partition format it fat32. Then install XP on the extended non-dos partition and format it NTFS. When you boot it will give you the choice of which os to load. Only problem I can see is that there may not be any 98 drivers for some of the hardware in the computer. The newer chipsets and the like wernt even thought of when 98 was out.

Answer 3

if yur computer is anything like mine it has a separate option at startup that you push. Mine for example has F1 and F12 i think. Next to F12 it says press to boot from CD. Thats what i had to do to get it to boot from disc. It asked me to erase partitions and all that fun stuff you do when you reformat.
VISTA BLOWSSSS!!

Answer 4

while reinstalling windows vista....it doesnot give u option to delete partition coz it does that it self for you and for repair their is a different menu in disc...which says "repair my computer " or just "Repair"...
so u cannot manaully delete the earlier partition as its does it itself....