Disk Formatting issues.

[L.T.W.]

Well, I want to format my hard drive, but the drive has a partition that is the system recovery.

So if I delete it to format the drive, how could I recover the system back up?

I also have both Windows XP professional and Windows Vista Business Eds DVDs, but I have them both as ISO files and I dont have a DVD burner.

Tips?

[kitty]

You don't have to format the whole disk to format the Windows partition. I don't have help for your second issue, since I'm assuming those ISOs were obtained with less than legal methods.

[L.T.W.]

Actually I got the ISOs through the Students Academic Alliance between my college and Microsoft, I even got all the CD Keys.

But I dont need any more help I installed Vista and my PC is fat and clean once more

[starla]

You should be able to boot to the recovery partition and use it to do a clean format and reinstall the OS. As for your isos, you need to back them up of course if you want them. If you don't want to get a second hard drive or burner, i'd suggest a large sized usb thumbdrive or an external to back it all up to.