a drive of two operating systems?

Then my little brother in order to reinstall the operating system on his hard drive successfully installed Vista Home Basic on my computer already ultimate performer... How to uninstall the base of my hard drive. currently I have to choose what op system to launch at startup and its very annoying

As we do not know how it was installed 2 versions of Vista on the same drive, I suggest you do a CUSTOM of your Vista Ultimate resettlement, removing the existing Vista/s? partition during the process.

Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu

http://www.theeldergeekvista.com/vista_clean_installation.htm

A tutorial on the use of a clean install

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_install_03.asp

Super Guide Windows Vista Installation

After installation > go to the website of the manufacturer of your computer/notebook > drivers and downloads Section > key in your model number > get latest Vista drivers for it > download/install them.

Save all data, because it will be lost during a clean installation.

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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