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Installation Vs Upgrade
Its fairly well known that you can do a clean install from an upgrade disk...quite why that should be I don't know but i'm not complaining as I wanted to do a fresh installation without any old XP clutter on my hd. Installation was a charm...all the necessary drivers for Dell D820 were present.

partition hard drive
On HD, this is almost never needed at all after the first time. The only good this does when using the quick format is to wipe everything out on that partition. Now I don't know if this still works for Windows 2000, XP, or Vista. I do know it does work for Windows ME and under. I've done it all of the time.

GA-965P-DQ6 SATA
So Vista Upgrade Edition should really be called Vista "Not Clean" "time waster" [Update 4:10AM - A reader clarifies that you can technically do a clean install by telling Vista to wipe the hard drive before installing after it confirms a full copy of Windows XP is installed. This however is still lame because you

Buying a new activation key:
Goxy24 n...@spam.invalid microsoft public windowsxp general Davywrote: Ah, you just want a clean hard drive.... have a look here http://groups.msn.com/ComputingSolutionsCenter/reformatting.msnw with these instructions you'll stop at the point of installing Windows, since you just want to 'wipe' the disc and not do an

Will clean install wipe second HD?
I have purchased, physically on a store, a FULL RETAIL version of Vista Ultimate for my notebook. I decided to use it at my desktop as well, and installed copy of Vista Ultimate, will the key work, or will I have to re-install with the accompanying DVD; - If I have to re-install, do I have to wipe the HD clean,

Upgrading WindowsXP Pro to Vista Ultimate on a FAT 32 HD
I once had to deal with an angry customer who wanted me to wipe his harddrive clean because there was only some 70GB of the 80GB available. I explained he'd lose the Windows he paid for, but apparently he found it to be clutter on his HD... Now that's hardcore. Gak! My deepest sympathies.

vista upgrade back to xp
It's a prime time star I'll be, never will I fade Ha hahahahahahaha Hastala vista ... Baby. I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. De Mille. ...... and the tanker wipes out the User. But before the "Game Over" message is spoken, the tank of energy gets back to the Principal Office, saving the day.

Hotel Room Descriptions->Quareterly posting of entire archive ...
Though I have not bought windows Vista yet I plan to and need to be as safe as possible when installing. Also, I think my system needs a good clean sweep I suggest you back up any data files and wipe out the HD and then install Vista fresh. The second thing is this. Is the machine Vista compatible and is the

Size of Vista Business Clean Install?
I'm beginning to suspect this may be a possible reason for Vista not having a new file system as it was supposed to (or at least that's what I have heard or read) Sorry, Zap and Wipe will not remove XP NTFS completely and may severely damage the hard drive. -- MEB - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my

FSX and Vista
packard8 packa...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Thanx for the reply. As I recall, a clean install of XP Pro & Office 2003 was only about 5 or 6 GB. Am I missing a bunch of temp files to delete? I’m tempted to wipe the HD and try a raw install. TIA John.

Needs advice: upgrade or clean install?
What do you use for anti virus? and do you know if AVG free works with Vista? Thanks for spending time with me, I really appreciate it. I will try and spread the word on how my problem was solved. Alan "Dana Cline - MVP" wrote: If you do a clean install, it will wipe everything in that partition.

Promblems upgrading form XP SP2 to Vista
packard8 packa...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Well, I just did that and after xfering back docs, pix, As I recall, a clean install of XP Pro & Office 2003 was only about 5 or 6 GB. Am I missing a bunch of temp files to delete? I’m tempted to wipe the HD and try a

partition hard drive
This is from a newbie(me) that had no problem adding 2GB RAM to a new Vista computer, but obviously didn't back up ALL the files I should have when I used the OS restore disk to wipe the hard drive clean after getting a virus. Any opinions would be appreciated. Thanks! Dennis Forkel.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 02-05-07
Greg G...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general I have WinXP 32 bti edition currently installed and I was told by some people that I cannot upgrade this to Home Premium. That okay with me. But I have a few more questions. If I wipe my HD clean, so WinXP is gone, and then I insert a Home

XP in place upgrade, networking issues
So my questions is, how do I wipe my hard drive clean? The only thing I can think of is to use the restore disk that came with my Dell XPS which wipes the hard drive. Then install Vista. So my question is, is there a way to wipe my HD clean and install vista without using the method above? "R. McCarty" wrote: Which

Upgrading to 64-bit Vista
So wipe the HD clean and reinstall it properly yourself. The benefit isn't in us getting linux systems (aside from not having to pay for another useless windows --Sir Jackery If Dell did what you just said and sold the computer without any OS installed instead of Vista, Windows XP Media Center or whatever,

Beta1 Vista New Folder/Dual Boot/Virtual PC
I installed Vista Business on my comp that has a Lanparty nf4MB, Athlon 64 cpu and 2Gb of ram and a Seagate 120Gb HD. Unfortunately it's incompatible with my new analog/digital TV tuner card so i want to switch back to XP Pro. I decided to "wipe the HD" clean with Dban and load XP Pro using the installation CD.

Vista re-install question
So Vista Upgrade Edition should really be called Vista "Not Clean" "time waster" Edition. [Update 4:10AM - A reader clarifies that you can technically do a clean install by telling Vista to wipe the hard drive before installing after it confirms a full copy of Windows XP is installed. This however is still lame

Installing 64bit Vista over 32bit Vista/XP64bit?
That's why so many Windoze users prefer Vista. And unfortunately, all the hot shit fixes and audio recording power user tips I've ever seen are for us Windoze trogs. I said it before... right now the least draconian thing you can do is a full, bottom up reinstall. Archive what you need and and wipe your HD clean of

Oh why did Apple dump IBM....
Eric Baines EricBai...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows mediacenter Don't suppose it is worth waiting a bit, buying the relevant Vista and and rerun the upgrade, that should wipe the drive and give you a nice clean install. Just remember to back everything up and check to make sure you have