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Old 06/03/08, 15:45
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Windows Vista problem
I want to do a clean install of windows Vista and other bits, but it won't let me format my drive :S How do i unlock this?

I now am starting to hate vista again :@ lol

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Old 06/03/08, 23:58
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I would image you would do it while installing Vista from the BIOS boot to CD?
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Old 07/03/08, 14:13
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As you might know, Comet doesn't sell you the cd with vista on it when you get it. it is already stored on the hdd and you have to set it up, gay i know but that is what they did to me

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Well that makes it a good bit trickier. Is there any chance you could copy it to a cd and see if you can run it from there? Another reason not to buy from comet!
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Old 07/03/08, 14:40
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Hehe, another reason to build your own system
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Vista still uses NTFS, so you could pop in an XP CD and format it with that.

I'm guessing that they've given you a restore partition on your drive?

Once you've got your PC set up, you could look into backing up the partition with Norton Ghost, which you can then use to restore your defaults at a later date from either DVDs or a separate partition.
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Old 08/03/08, 16:57
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Nope, i didn't get a disk
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But you do have a restore partition?

I thought they were obliged to give you a copy of some kind of installation media - either an restore partition or a physical CD.
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I know what was wrong with it now, Vista will not read my disk because it is a copy of the OS i wanted to put on it. Opps
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You have to boot from the cd to do that option.
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If you boot from cd you can format you Hardrive.
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Oh i see what you was saying now
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