Formatting my partition, will it cause boot problems?

karma charger

karma charger

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hey guys. I want to reformat my windows 7 partition and start from scratch. the only problem is, the last time i did this, i kept getting the "NTLDR is missing" error and i couldn't boot and eventually had to do stuff i didn't want to do, so the last time i did it, i just deleted everything in the partition. and btw i have 2 other partitions, one with windows 7 32 bit, no longer needed, and windows XP, which is no longer needed, but i will deal with that after i reformat this partition, right now i just need to find out how to clean this partition without getting any boot.ini or booting errors period so i can log onto my windows XP and reinstall windows 7 64 bit on the partition i want to format. so will reformatting it be fine or do i have to uninstall windows 7, since it is my main boot OS. i think there is some way you can edit boot.ini to change the main boot OS, but i'm not sure, so if you can tell me wht to do to make it so i have no boot errors and then format my partition so i can reinstall windows 7, that would be great, thanks alot! :good:
 
Boot to the windows 7 dvd and first choose to format the partition that you want to install it to. Then do a fresh install to that partition.
 
Why dont you boot from the cd right when the computer is starting instead of from windows and format the whole harddrive and install windows 7 on fresh harddrive.
 
Then just install it from USB stick.
Be sure that in the BIOS you configure the BOOT ORDER to first boot from the USB devices.




Cheers!
 
Thumb drives are cheap,i got lucky and only needed a 4gb one for windows 7 professional which was only 2.3gb and it only cost me $7,lol

i dont think they have a 12gb flashdrive, i only heard of 1gb,2gb,4gb,8gb,16gb,32gb and so on and then you would need a 16gb it looks like and may cost around $14-18 at walmart if you have one
 
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