With larger and larger hard drives arriving each day with modern PCs, it gets increasingly harder to find an easy backup solution for the enormous amounts of data these drives can now hold. Since losing family photos or other important data is an all-too real possibility with so much stored on a drive, backing up […]
There will come a time when you will not only want to wipe your Windows Vista computer system clean and reinstall the Microsoft operating system, but you will have to. So, herewith, are instructions on how to reformat and reinstall Windows Vista. I recommend strongly that you first back-up all of your personal data from your […]
Let’s get started with an easy reformat and reinstall. We’re not going to leave the Windows Vista desktop or mess with the BIOS here. The downside is that you won’t destroy all your data and it will get saved in a folder called Windows.old. The upside is you don’t have to mess with scary BIOS […]
Unlike the easy reformat and reinstall process, this step-by-step reformat and reinstall is a little more involved and requires you to go into the system BIOS so you can boot from your Vista DVD. It adds, however, the advantage of being able to destroy your Windows partition so there is no residual data on your […]
This article is the second step in the Vista reinstall and reformat process where the partition is destroyed. Read Step 1 here. Once you have booted with the Vista reinstall DVD, you’ll see a screen that prompts you to enter your product key. You can find it on a label on the packaging or on […]