Another Vista Reliability & Performance Update Vista News Discuss Another Vista Reliability & Performance Update in the Windows Vista forums; Format A Partition Using The Vista DVD You can format a partition using either the Disk Management Console or you can use the Windows Vista DVD to achieve the same ...

[Snuffy]

Format A Partition Using The Vista DVD
You can format a partition using either the Disk Management Console or you can use the Windows Vista DVD to achieve the same result.

To use the Vista DVD proceed as follows:

1/ Switch on your PC

2/ Quickly insert the Vista DVD into your CD/DVD-ROM drive

3/ A message will appear asking you to 'Press any key to boot from CD/DVD

4/ Press any key

5/ A black screen will now appear with a progress bar along the bottom. The legend say's 'Windows is loading files'

6/ After the files have been loaded the Language screen will appear.

7/ Select your language from the list and press Next

8/ At the Installation screen press the Install Now button

9/ The product key window will now open

10/ Type your product key number into the available box and then press OK

11/ The End user Licence Agreement now appears. You 'must' accept this to continue

12/ The next screen to appear is 'Where do you want to install Windows'

13/ At the bottom of this window you will see an option marked Drive options (Advanced), click on this option

14/ In this Window select the partition you wish to Format from the list available and then click Format option link

15/ A message will now appear informing you that all data will be destroyed. Click OK to proceed
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there are other options also... like CMD which is DOS or Command an you can restore by using: rstrui.exe /offline:C:\windows Now if your vista is not on C: where as my copy is on D: substitute the correct drive letter. This is also where you preform Diskpart (http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true)

plus other options available...

[felix8406]

See the attach picks to view your options, including the formatting option.