How to uninstall windows vista or reformat the c drive

How to uninstall windows vista or reformat the c drive?

Hello

You do not uninstall Vista as such.

Vista cannot uninstall itself by Vista, formatting the drive that is installed on. In other words it cannot remove itself.

You install another operating system, removal of Vista during the installation process of the other operating system...

You don't say exactly what you are trying to do.

You can format a disk if it a second drive with the Dual Boot operating systems and leaves without data or the operating system on it at all.

We need more information.

See you soon.

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