Saved Information or Installations.
Once you format or Reformat, which ever you prefer, you will start clean. Although lets pretend you forgot your family photo's and you just reformatted. Now what do you do? Are you stuck without your important photo's? NOPE. You can now go to your previous installations and pull out anything you have forgotten. You can do this by going to My Computer-->C:Drive--> they will be named Windows.old. This is a nice feature in vista, i love it, and it stays there until you get rid of it which brings me to my next step.
How to remove old Vista installations.
To remove previous Windows installations, you MUST go to Start-->Accessories or use search-->System Tools-->Disk Clean-up (Search this). Let it scan and CHECK ALL the boxes, yes i said EVERY BOX (Optional but it makes it easier on you). If you decide not to check every box, check the one that says something similar to Previous Windows Installations. Then continue, to check if it was done correctly, go to My Computer-->C:Drive-->Make sure there are no Windows.old. If there is restart your pc and check again. If its still there then go to a forum like www.thevistaforums.com and ask for additional help.
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You should also tell people WHY they must delete it through Disk CleanUp:
The WINDOWS.OLD directory structure contains symbolic links (disguised as ordinary shortcuts) which represent files on your current, ACTIVE Windows installation... so if you just use the file explorer to delete WINDOWS.OLD, you will also be deleting folders on your new Windows installation which the symbolic links point to. Normally it is safe to delete shortcuts but in this case it is not because they are not really shortcuts: they only masquerade as shortcuts and deleting them is the same as deleting the actual folder they point to. Of course Microsoft does not warn you about the behavior of symbolic links; you only learn after it's too late and the damage is done. But why is all of this reinstalling necessary in the first place? --Because it's so easy for you and your applications to unintentionally break this OS. And sometimes Microsoft breaks it themselves through Windows Update!* To hell with Microsoft--they should be paying me for all of the time I have wasted repairing this crappy OS. When you finally get tired of spending all of your time fixing Windows problems instead of getting work done, you will just switch to Linux or MacOS and never look back.
*Search terms:
"configuring updates" , "3 of 3" , "endless reboot" SP1
AppData path changed error
"Windows Update" , "broke my"
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