VISTA FORMAT

[jasobnd]

How do you format your harddrive and install a clean copy of windows vista. LEGIT OEM copy

I have tried the following:

CD BOOT, INSTALL FROM WINDOWS, ADMIN TOOLS FORMAT, MY COMPUTER FORMAT, SAFEMODE, F8 BOOT ORDER, BIOS BOOT ORDER, RESTARTING WITH CD IN DRIVE, PUTTING CD IN DRIVE DURING BOOT.

 

[Zoron]

Boot from the DVD... if you can't, then there is either a problem with your drive or your disc.

 

[Jonmor68]

I notice you keep saying CD, Vista is on a DVD, do you have a DVD reader/burner? if not you will need to get one.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

boot from dvd after pressing f8 by selecting your cd / dvd drive...you will get a screen asking whether you want to do an upgrade or clean install.choose clean install.you will then get a screen that shows your hard drive select format.then proceed to install!

 

[jasobnd]

I have a DVD- ROM and a DVD-RW i have tried with both. My VISTA DVD is an OEM copy which i ordered from Overclockers.co.uk.

I have tried pressing F8 and changing boot order that way = Nothing. Vista just boots up.

I have tried changing the boot order in the BIOS = Nothing. Vista Just boots up.

I'm Assuming my OEM disc is either faulty or that OEM versions of VISTA HOME PREMIUM dont have that option.

 

[fowang]

whats your motherboard Make and model, im sure your settings are not allowing to boot from CD/DVD (Boot device priority 1st) if anything else IE hdd drive are before this then it will not boot or get the option to press any key to boot from cd/dvd

 

[jasobnd]

It is an ASUS M3N32 Deluxe Wifi Edition. If have allready changed the boot priority in the BIOS, Nothing happens. Think i might just treat myself to a new Harddrive cos my Raptor drive is abit old nowadays if i cant sort this out.

 

[Zoron]

Either your disc or your drive is defective. I have a combo drive in my laptop that reads Blu-Ray and writes and re-writes everything else. The drive won't read Blu-Rays or DVDs, but reads CDs. I know it's not a Windows issue, because it won't boot from a known good bootable DVD. Of course, try and get that through the thick skulls at Acer tech support...

 

[jasobnd]

is there anything i can do if my DISC is defective im pretty sure my drives are fine cos they read my S.T.A.L.K.E.R discs fine and there both DVD's.

a mate of mine said to boot from a linux dvd/cd which will format the drive for me?
could i cancel out of the installation once the drive has been formatted?

 

[Zoron]

If you download Ubuntu, you can use it like a live CD. You can format your hard drive without installing it... but honestly, if you don't have a working Vista DVD, you're still not going to be able to reload Vista once you've done the format. I'd be more concerned about getting a working Vista DVD first, then work on the format part. Borrow a Vista DVD from someone... just make sure it's OEM.