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AlexN |
posted on 27th Oct 09 at 11:58 |
i've only installed 7 once, and that was RTM, vista about 20 times in 2 years! :lol: | |
John |
posted on 27th Oct 09 at 11:56 |
Format is on the main screen on 7 iirc, it was hidden below an option in vista. | |
AlexN |
posted on 27th Oct 09 at 11:53 |
iirc its not an option as such, you have to go looking a bit for it. i think its on the partition screen. im sure there'll be a youtube video of it somewhere | |
ajscorsa |
posted on 27th Oct 09 at 11:11 |
yes I booted from cd but it still never gave me the option to format the drive, just installed windows 7 along with vista, or upgraded vista. no clean install. | |
AlexN |
posted on 27th Oct 09 at 10:02 |
when you turn your laptop on, go into bios, set it to boot from cd/dvd drive first, then just press a button when it says, to boot from cd press a button.. follow the steps, delete everything, fresh install with 1 os :) | |
ajscorsa |
posted on 27th Oct 09 at 09:59 |
was up to half 2 last night lol, I couldnt find the option to format off the windows 7 disk. would only upgrade or install windows 7 so i'd have 2 os' | |
willay |
posted on 27th Oct 09 at 08:38 |
live on the wild side of life you pussy, remove the recovery partition. | |
Rob_Quads |
posted on 27th Oct 09 at 08:24 |
quote: I would not recommend doing this yourself unless you really know what your doing which you obviously don't. By keeping the recovery partition you know you will always be able to fairly easily get back a working system if you need to. Also remember if you format your disk you will loose everything. Backing up just your documents is not enough normally as there are often files all over the place you want including confiurations per app i.e. email etc. | |
willay |
posted on 27th Oct 09 at 08:20 |
booting off the windows 7 disk and going through the installer, it will ask if you want to format. Remember to delete the recovery partition so you gain more space. | |
ajscorsa |
posted on 27th Oct 09 at 00:08 |
ok so I want to install windows 7 onto my laptop. I installed it at first and just upgraded vista but I heard windows 7 is faster if I do a clean install, i.e. format the drive and start a fresh. |