biker9075 Posted September 20, 2006 CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 Hi all, I have had vista installed since beta 2, and its nice and all, but my hard drive is starting to get filled and I should be able to get another 30GB of storage back by uninstalling and moving my Vista partition back to my C drive. Does anyone know how to completly get rid of vista? I was looking on google but they said you needed to insert the windows XP CD which I dont have since the computer I bought direct from Toshiba already had XP installed so that means no CD. Maybe someone knows an alternative way? Thanks! Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted September 20, 2006 CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 the only way to get rid of it is to format the drive. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXDriv3r Posted September 20, 2006 CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 Woah...let me get this....Vista is around 30 Gigs? Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
biker9075 Posted September 20, 2006 Author CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 Woah...let me get this....Vista is around 30 Gigs? No, the partition I have dedicated for vista is 30 gigs Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted September 20, 2006 CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 Woah...let me get this....Vista is around 30 Gigs? a full insall of vista is about 5gb. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173695 Share on other sites More sharing options...
biker9075 Posted September 20, 2006 Author CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 I suppose I could just leave vista on there and install new programs etc. on my vista partition. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
biker9075 Posted September 20, 2006 Author CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 I got a bettter idea, I'll just move 10 gigs for now from my vista partition over to my C drive Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted September 20, 2006 CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 I got a bettter idea, I'll just move 10 gigs for now from my vista partition over to my C drive that will work. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted September 20, 2006 CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 http://dban.sourceforge.net/ DBAN is a great program for what you are wanting to do. I run it before all my clean installs. It also makes it so no data is able to be recovered. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted September 20, 2006 CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 http://dban.sourceforge.net/ DBAN is a great program for what you are wanting to do. I run it before all my clean installs. It also makes it so no data is able to be recovered. i love that program, i use it quite often. great name too Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted September 20, 2006 CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 Yea the name sounds great... kinda stern. Derriks Boot And Nuke, gottta love the nuke part. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
biker9075 Posted September 20, 2006 Author CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 Its asking for a floppy disk which i dont have a floppy drive on this laptop. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted September 20, 2006 CID Share Posted September 20, 2006 Nah just used a cd. I have never used a floppy with DBAN. OOPS my bad here is the link for the cd/dvd version. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dban/dban-1.0.7_i386.iso?download Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted September 21, 2006 CID Share Posted September 21, 2006 Nah just used a cd. I have never used a floppy with DBAN. OOPS my bad here is the link for the cd/dvd version. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dban/dban-1.0.7_i386.iso?download That might help there shug. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXDriv3r Posted September 21, 2006 CID Share Posted September 21, 2006 Floppy Disks? Whats this nonsense? Pssh...Ancient Technology.........Lol...1.4MB...lol...there are pictures bigger than that these days... Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted September 21, 2006 CID Share Posted September 21, 2006 Floppy Disks? Whats this nonsense? Pssh...Ancient Technology.........Lol...1.4MB...lol...there are pictures bigger than that these days... Use the second link I posted for the CD version. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted September 21, 2006 CID Share Posted September 21, 2006 Floppy Disks? Whats this nonsense? Pssh...Ancient Technology.........Lol...1.4MB...lol...there are pictures bigger than that these days... floppy disks are still used quite often. on most systems when ever you update the bios you gotta use a floppy disk. Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted September 21, 2006 CID Share Posted September 21, 2006 Floppy Disks? Whats this nonsense? Pssh...Ancient Technology.........Lol...1.4MB...lol...there are pictures bigger than that these days... I still use it for F-Disk , Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted September 22, 2006 CID Share Posted September 22, 2006 So what do you do if yours never came with a floppy? ? Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted September 22, 2006 CID Share Posted September 22, 2006 usb floppy drive... that's what I do anyway... Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-173963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted September 22, 2006 CID Share Posted September 22, 2006 So what do you do if yours never came with a floppy? ? LOL, came with ? mine are born at home and I have a box full of new floppy drives ,I got to use them up somehow, + a usb external floppy drive, for the laptop Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/15569-uninstalling-vista/#findComment-174048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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