Major problems with vista demo

[Guest]

Well for one. I have a 40 gig hard drive that I split into two about a year
ago. I had XP pro on it till I recived the disc for Vista Ultamite beta
version. I had problems upgrade it. So I re-formated my hard drive kept the
hard drives split ( which it is 18.6 gig even split). Well the beta version
expired and I had problems with getting rid of it. So I have the Business
edition of Vista. Could not unistall the previous version and the business
would not go onto the c: drive. Because it said there was not enough room .
So I needed my computer, at the time I went ahead and loaded the new version
on the 2nd part of the drive. Everthing went smothly on loading and it works
just fine.

Except that I still can not get rid of the previous version. I can't even
re-format the hard drive. I need to get rid of the beta version because I
only have 1 gig of hard drive left on the hard drive. What do I need to do to
get rid of the beta version?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You need to boot form the Vista DVD and follow the directions
to delete all partitions on your hard drive, then create a new partition,
format it NTFS, and install Vista.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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Well for one. I have a 40 gig hard drive that I split into two about a year
ago. I had XP pro on it till I recived the disc for Vista Ultamite beta
version. I had problems upgrade it. So I re-formated my hard drive kept the
hard drives split ( which it is 18.6 gig even split). Well the beta version
expired and I had problems with getting rid of it. So I have the Business
edition of Vista. Could not unistall the previous version and the business
would not go onto the c: drive. Because it said there was not enough room .
So I needed my computer, at the time I went ahead and loaded the new version
on the 2nd part of the drive. Everthing went smothly on loading and it works
just fine.

Except that I still can not get rid of the previous version. I can't even
re-format the hard drive. I need to get rid of the beta version because I
only have 1 gig of hard drive left on the hard drive. What do I need to do to
get rid of the beta version?

 

[Guest]

If I remeber right, I have tried that when I installed the second vista. But
it wouldn't let me do that.

 

[Richard Urban]

Try Carey's advice again. It "does" work. Just read carefully so you know
when and what to do.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User