-- Posted by Deer Shank at 12:23 pm on July 2, 2009 Well I had  Windows Vista (Yeah I know poor me...) I decided that I wanted to get a ride of it, so I installed the Windows 7 Beta and when I did I formatted my hard drive to remove the OS, or so I thought. I think that it left the OS on there but I can't figure out how to remove it and get arid of all the data. Can anyone tell me how? -- Posted by DaisyMontana at 12:24 pm on July 2, 2009 install windows vista again and keep it? -- Posted by RIMHfire at 12:29 pm on July 2, 2009 Next time take it to a professional. -- Posted by Deer Shank at 12:54 pm on July 2, 2009 Wow glad to see no one is of any help... Fucken retards... Oh and MrGregoryMahony, are you fucken gay? Also, only computer illiterate people would mess up a computer, I did what I was supposed to and it did not work. I formatted it and when I installed the Windows 7 OS I choose to remove it, but the files were retained somehow. Also I do not sit around and scratch my balls all day, I have your mother for that, you know just like you have your boyfriend. DaisyMontana, I got arid of Vista because it was garbage and I did not like it, and it was slow as shit. I can tell you right now it is not my computer being slow, I have 2 gigz of Ram and I have completely revamped my computer for gaming and it does not have many games that can make it run slow. -- Posted by espresso8097 at 3:50 pm on July 2, 2009 You might have just installed it beside your Vista installation.  Just put in a Linux Live-cd and use GParted (sometimes called Partition Manager in the menus) and format the drive to something Windows can't install to (ie: ext2, ext3, ext4), and then restart.  When you run the Win7 installer it will be forced to format the drive (NTFS).   -- Posted by Deer Shank at 4:47 pm on July 2, 2009 Quote: from espresso8097 at 3:50 pm on July 2, 2009 You might have just installed it beside your Vista installation.  Just put in a Linux Live-cd and use GParted (sometimes called Partition Manager in the menus) and format the drive to something Windows can't install to (ie: ext2, ext3, ext4), and then restart.  When you run the Win7 installer it will be forced to format the drive (NTFS).   Well I ran the command prompt to see if there was a remains of Windows Vista and there wasn't. It is just the folders but I can't find them anywhere. FOUND IT! The computer took it to itself to back up all my files in a folder called Windows.old. I am looking at how much memory was in it and it is reaching 70gB as I type....