Clean Install

When you do a clean install, does this mean that your drive will be formatted
and you will lose all information and programs on it?

Lonewolph wrote:
> When you do a clean install, does this mean that your drive will be formatted
> and you will lose all information and programs on it?

Yes.


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Lonewolph wrote:
> When you do a clean install, does this mean that your drive will be formatted
> and you will lose all information and programs on it?


Yes, that is, by definition, a "clean" installation.


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Clean install means just that! Everything is wiped from the drive. If you
are planning on doing a clean install then make sure you have backed up all
your important data before you start.

I have an illustrated guide to installing Vista on my website:

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"Lonewolph" <Lonewolph@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When you do a clean install, does this mean that your drive will be
> formatted
> and you will lose all information and programs on it?

"Lonewolph" <Lonewolph@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When you do a clean install, does this mean that your drive will be
> formatted
> and you will lose all information and programs on it?

However, by default Windows Vista will move everything into a folder called
Windows.old, which cannot be booted but files can be retrieved.

The user has to specify if they want the drive actually formatted.

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The first partition on the hard drive should be 40 to 45 Gbytes. Install only
the OS on this partition. All of the other folders containing files and media
should be on a different partition. If you do a clean install, only the files
on the partition containing the OS will be erased.

Arne

"Lonewolph" wrote:

> When you do a clean install, does this mean that your drive will be formatted
> and you will lose all information and programs on it?