Need to reintall have a few questions

[Neal]

After installing Vista this weekend and having a little bit of driver issues
Vista is running well. I still have a few problems like a almost 5 min boot
time and a few other driver issued with Nvidia. I would like to get Vista
to start off from scratch again.

My thinking is since I have Xp 64 on one partion and Vista 64 in the other I
would do a reformat of the two hard drives that I have install each OS on
their own HD instead of having both on the same HD. That way everything is
clean. Right now I do have a issue if I do not have the Vista DVD in the
rom it will not boot to Vista and Vista Boot Pro has not been able to fix
this issue.

I am just trying to figure out with Vista what is the best way to get
everything all cleaned and re-installed again. I want Xp64 to be my stable
OS were right now it has a lot of Beta stuff on it like office and have
Vista 64 be my Beta fun.

Thanks

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I would not bother to do put them on separate drives just to be arranging
things that way. Have you tried running the repair on the Install Now
screen? That might fix the boot options so that you do not need the dvd in
the drive.

 

[Peter Horsley]

When you refer to "repair" are you referring to build 5384 ?
My first screen which has "Install now . . " does not have any "repair"
option that I can see even in one of the sub-menus.
I would like to do a Repair Install like you can do with WinXP.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It is not a repair install. I recall seeing a button for repairing the
Vista boot file during setup. It may be on a later screen than I remember
now.