Monday, January 30, 2012

How do I remove Vista Home Premium completely from my 32 bit Dell computer?

My intention is to install Windows 7 on my 1 year old Dell. I don't care about losing all my programs because I have all the disks at hand. How do I do it? (I'm not computer savvy)

Thanks in advanceHow do I remove Vista Home Premium completely from my 32 bit Dell computer?Put in the windows 7 disks and boot up, tell it to do a clean install, not upgrade. It will format, removing everything, then install 7. This will only work if you have a full version of 7, if you got an upgrade you have to boot into vista and run the upgrade from it, its just not as clean.



If you format you will lose all data and files, justto note.How do I remove Vista Home Premium completely from my 32 bit Dell computer?
Choose Upgrade or Custom



If you're upgrading from any previous version of Windows, you'll have this all-important choice, although the Upgrade option will only be available if you're moving from Vista. If your victim machine has never had Windows installed on it before, you won't have either choice鈥攋ust go ahead and choose Install.



Choosing Custom gives you a lot of options not available from Upgrade, like formatting and partitioning your hard disk. This type of "clean" install is actually recommended if you can live with having to reinstall your apps鈥攜our system will run without any of the gunk it's accumulated over the course of program installations and other system changes. One final note about this choice: You must start up from the installer disc; you cannot run the installer from within Windows for this type of installation to work.How do I remove Vista Home Premium completely from my 32 bit Dell computer?Download "Gparted" an opensource drive manager.

It has a live cd that you can burn and run at boot to manage and delete the vista systems of drive then reformat. Then your ready to install the Operating System of your choice.



Heres the link to the live cd Download: (burn the iso file to cd)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/0.4.8-1/gparted-live-0.4.8-1.iso/download
Put your windows 7 disk in, restart and it will say something along the lines of push any key to run windows setup. then there should be an option to format the current hard drive it might be like vista and say advance where the format button is, anyways you will do that and then it will install windows 7How do I remove Vista Home Premium completely from my 32 bit Dell computer?I don't think you do as such.



Just insert the Windows 7 disk and it should guide you through the entire installation/uninstallation process.



Have you tried this?How do I remove Vista Home Premium completely from my 32 bit Dell computer?
If you want to wipe your disk clean, download Derek's Boot-and-Nuke.

It's free, and will remove everything.



http://www.dban.org



Computer Repairman
Get a new Windows disk --------- or Liunx --- What ever you want put it in the computer restart it --- Boot from disk =-====== format the HDDHow do I remove Vista Home Premium completely from my 32 bit Dell computer?
Full reformatting which 7th edition will do.

Insert DVD and restart PC, when asks, press any key to run from your 7th DVD, follow instructions.

Of course I assume you have that 7th DVD
Get a Windows 7 disc from someone
Install a new OS, it will wipe when you install.
boot thru the vista cd and format ur hdd
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