Major problems with vista demo

Well for one. I have a 40 gig hard drive that I split into two about a year
ago. I had XP pro on it till I recived the disc for Vista Ultamite beta
version. I had problems upgrade it. So I re-formated my hard drive kept the
hard drives split ( which it is 18.6 gig even split). Well the beta version
expired and I had problems with getting rid of it. So I have the Business
edition of Vista. Could not unistall the previous version and the business
would not go onto the c: drive. Because it said there was not enough room .
So I needed my computer, at the time I went ahead and loaded the new version
on the 2nd part of the drive. Everthing went smothly on loading and it works
just fine.

Except that I still can not get rid of the previous version. I can't even
re-format the hard drive. I need to get rid of the beta version because I
only have 1 gig of hard drive left on the hard drive. What do I need to do to
get rid of the beta version?

You need to boot form the Vista DVD and follow the directions
to delete all partitions on your hard drive, then create a new partition,
format it NTFS, and install Vista.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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"BEH1230" wrote:

Well for one. I have a 40 gig hard drive that I split into two about a year
ago. I had XP pro on it till I recived the disc for Vista Ultamite beta
version. I had problems upgrade it. So I re-formated my hard drive kept the
hard drives split ( which it is 18.6 gig even split). Well the beta version
expired and I had problems with getting rid of it. So I have the Business
edition of Vista. Could not unistall the previous version and the business
would not go onto the c: drive. Because it said there was not enough room .
So I needed my computer, at the time I went ahead and loaded the new version
on the 2nd part of the drive. Everthing went smothly on loading and it works
just fine.

Except that I still can not get rid of the previous version. I can't even
re-format the hard drive. I need to get rid of the beta version because I
only have 1 gig of hard drive left on the hard drive. What do I need to do to
get rid of the beta version?

If I remeber right, I have tried that when I installed the second vista. But
it wouldn't let me do that.
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> You need to boot form the Vista DVD and follow the directions
> to delete all partitions on your hard drive, then create a new partition,
> format it NTFS, and install Vista.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows - Shell/User
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Â*-----
>
> "BEH1230" wrote:
>
> Well for one. I have a 40 gig hard drive that I split into two about a year
> ago. I had XP pro on it till I recived the disc for Vista Ultamite beta
> version. I had problems upgrade it. So I re-formated my hard drive kept the
> hard drives split ( which it is 18.6 gig even split). Well the beta version
> expired and I had problems with getting rid of it. So I have the Business
> edition of Vista. Could not unistall the previous version and the business
> would not go onto the c: drive. Because it said there was not enough room .
> So I needed my computer, at the time I went ahead and loaded the new version
> on the 2nd part of the drive. Everthing went smothly on loading and it works
> just fine.
>
> Except that I still can not get rid of the previous version. I can't even
> re-format the hard drive. I need to get rid of the beta version because I
> only have 1 gig of hard drive left on the hard drive. What do I need to do to
> get rid of the beta version?
>

Try Carey's advice again. It "does" work. Just read carefully so you know
when and what to do.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User


"BEH1230" <> wrote in message
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>
> If I remeber right, I have tried that when I installed the second vista.
> But
> it wouldn't let me do that.
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> You need to boot form the Vista DVD and follow the directions
>> to delete all partitions on your hard drive, then create a new partition,
>> format it NTFS, and install Vista.
>>
>> --
>> Carey Frisch
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows - Shell/User
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Â*-----
>>
>> "BEH1230" wrote:
>>
>> Well for one. I have a 40 gig hard drive that I split into two about a
>> year
>> ago. I had XP pro on it till I recived the disc for Vista Ultamite beta
>> version. I had problems upgrade it. So I re-formated my hard drive kept
>> the
>> hard drives split ( which it is 18.6 gig even split). Well the beta
>> version
>> expired and I had problems with getting rid of it. So I have the Business
>> edition of Vista. Could not unistall the previous version and the
>> business
>> would not go onto the c: drive. Because it said there was not enough room
>> .
>> So I needed my computer, at the time I went ahead and loaded the new
>> version
>> on the 2nd part of the drive. Everthing went smothly on loading and it
>> works
>> just fine.
>>
>> Except that I still can not get rid of the previous version. I can't even
>> re-format the hard drive. I need to get rid of the beta version because I
>> only have 1 gig of hard drive left on the hard drive. What do I need to
>> do to
>> get rid of the beta version?
>>