Reinstall Vista 64-bit on the partition C erase data on other partitions?

Hello!

My computer crashed recently pretty poorly, and the repair did not work, so I'll reinstall Vista.
What I wanted to know before I looked at however, was reinstalling Vista on a partition would be to delete data on other partitions. I mean, I know it would erase all the files on the C partition, but what about others?

I have a 500 GB HARD drive divided into four even of the partitions, and have a lot of files and media on the other three partitions, but nothing of any consequence on the C partition where Vista is installed.

I'd rather be able to just re - install without transfer 100 s of GB data on mobile devices, as this would not only take ages, but be very annoying.

Any help/advice would be appreciated.

http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/117366-clean-install-full-version-Vista.html

The link above will show you how do it.

It's a very good tutorial/pictorial.

Articles 9, 10 and 11 will show you what I mean.

Good luck with it.

See you soon.

9 click on custom (advanced option). (See screenshot below)

10 select the hard disk you want to install Vista on, and then click Options (Advanced) readers. (See screenshot below)

11 click Format to format the hard drive. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: If you have more than one partition on the hard drive and you want to get rid of him make a big drive, then click on Remove for each partition. Now, click on new , and adjust the size of the partition that you want, and then click format. Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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