I want to delete everything on my hard drive and reinstall windows 7

[PGRM]

There is a problem with my computer so I want to delete everything off of my hard drive and reinstall windows 7. I contacted microsoft and talked to them about if my windows activation code would work and they said yes. I already have the iso for windows 7 on a usb flash drive but I am still curious about deleting everything off of my hard drive. If I deleted everything off of it would windows 7 install correctly. What would be the best program to use to delete all of my files. And would the hard drive still be usable if I deleted everything off of it?

 

[Spectre694]

Just delete the partition from the windows install disk when you go to install

 

[mbreslin1954]

The normal way to install Windows is to start with a blank disk, so, yes, if you delete everything off of it Windows 7 would install correctly. The obverse is not necessarily true -- if you leave crap on your hard drive then Windows 7 will not necessarily install correctly (although it probably will).

When you boot up the Windows 7 install disk/usb, the first step is to select the hard drive for installation. If it finds any partitions on the drive, delete them, then click Next and let Windows create as many partitions as it wants to (it will create two, a very small hidden one and then the rest of the disk as "C").

 

[sanjeevmalik]

Hey there,
Try This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mME9VLT7-xw
with this u can just install the os by completely formatting
the hard disk and removing every partition.

 

[Mikejo28]

First, if you have $160 kicking around, and you don't want
a lame computer,
get this:
Samsung 840 EVO 256 GB SSD solid state disk. At Amazon.com and in CA, at Central Computer & Frys. It plugs right into a SATA cable, preferably 6 GB/s to your HDD controller.
Use this as your boot drive, and use your rotating HDD as a second HDD for data storage and programs you don't use.

There are lots of videos on installing Win 7 to this SSD, its as easy as putting it on a old HDD.-
You can also move everything on an existing system to the SSD-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfUe81ThddM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMo8krAJd5Q
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[supasieu]

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