Reinstalling vista

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When I go to reinstall vist it shows my hard drive and says there is not
enough space on it, but there is no option to format the drive. What do I do?
 
Hello,

did you try installing after starting installation on running Vista? Try
booting from DVD and starting installation from there.

Hope this helps.
Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo
 
When I go to reinstall vist it shows my hard drive and says there is not
enough space on it, but there is no option to format the drive. What do I
do?
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You're doing the installation wrong. Don't do it from within Windows. Boot
from the Vista DVD (change the BIOS boot order if necessary) and follow the
prompts for a clean installation, which formats the drive.
 
It was an upgrade from XP to home premium, and when I try to boot from cd/dvd
drive it just goes to a blank screen.
 
Upgrade versions have to be started from within the qualifying OS, in your
case XP. Can you install a skeleton version of XP and install from there.
If not, you can use the double install of Vista mentioned on this site many
times.
 
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