I bought the windows vista home premium upgrade and installed it over the windows xp. So I would like to reformat and reinstall xp and the vista upgrade. Reformat hard drive and clean reinstall of Vista. Reading the other posts' I would rather not use Vista to reduce the size of the XP. Reformatting Vista after upgrading from XP. I want to reformat and have done it in> the past with XP but have not been able with Vista. Can you tell me where I> can get instructions and if I can expect any problems. Reformatting External Hard DriveHow do I reformat and reinstall Windows? This procedure will guide you on upgrading your Windows XP machine to Vista without reformatting. Back up your files. With the Windows 7 Release Candidate expiration date is just a few days away, many of Windows 7 RC users are asking a way to downgrade to Windows XP/Vista. Can you help? I installed Vista, as a dualboot with XP, using Daemon Tools and I am trying to follow your instructions for uninstalling the same. How to: Downgrade from Vista to XP without reformatting. It’s a crazy situation – and one that you feel only Microsoft could have created – but there are many. Problem is, downgrading a Vista PC to Windows XP can be a chore, and doubly so if you want to do it without reformatting your hard disk. The main roadblock is Windows. Computers store their data and operating procedures on devices called hard disks. The process of removing all data from these. How do I reformat and reinstall Windows? An image backup is a complete copy of a hard disk or other media being backed up. The copy is complete in that it can be restored to a completely empty hard drive – as in a replacement hard drive after a failure – and the result is a hard drive that contains everything that the original did. Formatting set up the underlying magnetic information so the disk could be used. The term also referred to the next step: setting up the initial data that would organize the files and folders to be added later. Coincidentally, just that last step – setting up the initial data on the disk – has the side effect of making anything that might have previously been on the disk inaccessible. As a result, “reformatting” has come to mean exactly that: erasing the disk by setting up those initial data structures. For the purposes of reinstalling Windows from scratch, all we really care about is that the disk be erased before we start. There are two approaches. Use a utility like DBAN to erase the disk before running Windows Setup. This is only really useful if you want to completely and securely erase all traces of data on the disk before. Let Windows Setup erase the disk for you. This is plenty for most situations. The “trick”, if you want to call it that, is that it’s not always obvious what to do in Windows Setup. So I’ll show you. Reformat. Step one is to boot from your installation media. Exactly how you do that will vary dramatically based on your specific computer. If your computer has the UEFI BIOS, which includes things like “secure boot”, this article applies. If your computer is older and has a traditional BIOS, check out this article. Once you boot, you’ll be asked to choose your language and keyboard; then click Next. Click on Install Now to begin the actual setup process. If you have a product key, you can enter it at this time, or click on I don’t have a product key to do so later. Click on Next. This particular set- up disk applies to Windows 1. Home and Pro both. Make your selection here, and click Next. Naturally, you’ll need to accept the product license. Click the “I accept the license terms” checkbox, and click on Next. Now choose the type of installation to perform. Click on Custom. Windows Setup asks where you want to put your new installation. This is where the reformatting magic happens. In order to “reformat” the disk, you will delete the existing partition(s) on the disk and let Windows Setup create new ones. The dialog box lists all existing partitions on the hard disk. In this example, you can see that there are two: System Reserved, and a primary partition. There are two approaches you can take. Delete only the partition you know contained the previous installation. Typically, this is the largest partition on the hard drive, and is marked “Primary”. If you’re not certain, this is likely your best option, so as not to delete important UEFI or manufacturer’s recovery partitions. Delete all the partitions on the hard drive. This will allow Windows Setup to make maximum use of the hard drive, and is typically safe in older, pre- UEFI machines. To delete a partition, simply click on the partition in the list and click on Delete. The partition should either become “unallocated space”, or be merged with any adjacent unallocated space. Once you’re done deleting partitions, click on the unallocated space item into which you want Windows installed. Windows Setup will take care of the rest. Click Next. At this point, Windows Setup proceeds to install Windows normally. Download (right- click, Save- As) (Duration: 6: 4. MB)Subscribe: i. Tunes.
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