Creating boot disk Vista?????

Joshua Jones · 2011-11-03 18:38:45

Hi all, Am using the parents laptop here, w/vista, and to be honest its running real slow and full of crap. Now trying to clean it up seems like a hiding to nothing so what I'd like to do is just Format C: and start with a fresh clean system. However, I cant see any option in accesories to create boot disk and dont have…

03-11-2011 06:38PM

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Joshua Jones

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Hi all,

Am using the parents laptop here, w/vista, and to be honest its running real slow and full of crap. Now trying to clean it up seems like a hiding to nothing so what I'd like to do is just Format C: and start with a fresh clean system.

However, I cant see any option in accesories to create boot disk and dont have origional DVD (dont think they provided them with Vista).

Any ideas?

JJ

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#2 04-11-2011 12:54AM

steveon

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On many machines there is a restore partition built into the machine which can often be accessed by pressing F11 repeatately or pressing F8 and running the startup repair.

Alternatively you can download a copy of the recovery console here which mite help you to access the restore partition if all else fails

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

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