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Originally Posted by Gbrizzy
Hey, i was wondering if i can use my vista cd to format XP and Partition my hard drive the same way i could use the XP cd to do it. I was also wondering if there was a proper order to and reinstall drivers after formatting.
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The Vista installation disk now sees the option to format a partition/drive sepaate from the installation process as well as resizing partitions. When going to install Vista unlike XP that simply deleted all previous MS folders Vista now rolls everything up into a Windows.old folder for later retrieving files and data from before manually deleting it yourself. That also allows reversion to the previous version of Windows.
Once you have Vista up and running the usual hardware detection/new hardware found prompts will still come up looking for drivers. At first the "U"ser "A"ccount "C"ontrol feature Vista's new security feature will hamper anything being installed. With that disabled in the control panel installing all software/drivers goes on like seen with XP.
(Simple answers to basic questions without retoratory remarks needed.
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