How do I reformat Vista computer?

[Compnewbie01]

I know with XP you can just delete partitions when you pop in the DVD, but I cannot find out how to do that with Vista. There is no way to delete/add partitions. I need to get a clean reinstall because everything got screwed up with all my uninstalls/reinstalls of drivers and games. Anybody know how I can reformat my computer with Vista?

 

[AVP]

You could just pop in a third party reformatting program like active killdisk or whatever its called and whipe the drive free.

 

[Navid]

You can delete, format , .... the same as XP.

When you get to "Which type of installation do you want?", click on "Custom .....".
That will take you to "Where do you want to install Windows?".
Click on "Drive options" at the bottom of the form.
That will bring up additional actions including "Delete", "Format" and "New".

 

[Brazen]

Or pop in the Parted Magic LiveCD, open a terminal and run "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda" and after about an hour or so you will have a completely clean drive. For extra paranoia, use "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda" but then you better plan to let is sit for several hours.