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" <BEH1230@discussions.microsoft.com> 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:
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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.
>>
>> --
>> 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?
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