Clean Install of Vista

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SpaRood · #1 Post by **SpaRood** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:15 pm

I tried to upgrade to Windows Vista on my brand new T60 which has Win XP Pro. It did not work, because the languages did not match. I am forced to do a clean install. I have got my own cheap student licence of Vista.

What is the recommend strategy to do this?

- Create rescue and recover disk, so I can roll back to XP pro
- Start with clean install of Vista

- Delete all (including hidden) partitions
- Install Vista
- Install ThinkVantage and download all upgrades.

Will this work?

seeplus · #2 Post by **seeplus** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:25 pm

Yes, it should. Be sure to read around the Vista forum for any compatibility hitches..

tballx · #3 Post by **tballx** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:16 am

I didn't delete the hidden service partition and am thankful I didn't. It will still restore your machine to factory state should you decide you would like to. I would not remove it.

berlin · #4 Post by **berlin** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:25 am

tballx wrote:I didn't delete the hidden service partition and am thankful I didn't. It will still restore your machine to factory state should you decide you would like to. I would not remove it.

if replacing a HD, how can install a hidden partition with all the factory defaults?

gt5l · #5 Post by **gt5l** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:31 am

I know norton ghost (Symantec) doeas not work with vista but they have anew product that enables you to create an image of the hard drive (partition hidden and visible included) then copy the new image onto the new hard drive.

Clean Install of Vista

Clean Install of Vista

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