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:
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> 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.
>
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> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows - Shell/User
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> "BEH1230" wrote:
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> 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?
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