L.T.W. Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitty Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.T.W. Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starla Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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