Help reinstalling Vista

G'day.

I would like to reinstall Vista as I am having a few problems with viruses etc. but I'm not sure how to go about it.

I guess I need to format C drive and reinstall but will that delete all the files on my partition drives?

I have as Asus M70 notebook which has two 500Gb HDD divided into 4 drives. I have too much stuff on the three non C drives that I don't want to lose.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

 

I have used GParted and it works very well but just take care you do not select the wrong partition.

 

It might be a good idea to run Windows Easy Transfer first. This will create a cutomized file (that you must store somewhere else) that can subsequently be used to restore selected files and settings to your new installation. This should make the whole reinstallation process a bit less of a pain.

You can use a third party app for reformatting, but your Windows installation disk will actually do it for you.

As has been said, none of this will affect your remaining partitions unless you have actually installed programs on them, but even then your personal files will not be affected.

 

Well, the OP did not state that he had a Vista install disc, that would be ideal for a reinstall of course. I'm worried that he has a pre-installed Vista and that reformatting from the hidden partition would wipe everything, even other partitions. I really hope I'm wrong here but just wanted to throw out a caution flag here. Perhaps an easier and safer method would be to go through the malware forum instead and get rid of the viruses etc.

Just an afterthought, having near 1TB of stuff you don't want to lose makes me think you should really get an external drive. I never trust a HDD with important stuff and always backup what I absolutely need.

 

You could well be right ad, let's hope the OP is still reading.