The upgrade to Vista seems impossible on Satellite U300

I have a Satellite U300 psu30a, I come from it.
He had the professional vista on and I wanted to put a partition on it... Make the partitions, formatted it. And when I used the recovery CD, it just now came back to XP instead of vista.

Tried all the different options, including the partition recovery on th hd and always ends up on the xp.
I gave up on linux, now, I want just the vista of return... What should I do?

Thank you!
Charles

Hello

If you really want to go back to vista, then you must format the disk hard INTEGER and cleaning the MBR (master boot record) which stores the information of starting all the operating systems installed.
The only way to do this is to enter a live linux CD (which should not be installed on the HARD drive, but I guess you that) and delete all the partition/format the entire disk. Don t forget to delete the MBR, it s important.

Simply perform your recovery as always, and it should work.
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