i want to format my laptop but i dont have a vista install cd can i do it with out one thanks

the prince, January 2009

A lot of the times when people dont get a Vista disc to format with you will find a partition on the drive that returns the laptop or pc to the original state it was in when it left the fatory so buy finding that and running it, it will be exactly as it was the first time you took it out of the box.
Some may find this as a partition on My Computer and others may have to restart and press escape or delete as it fires up but so if you didnt get a disc and you can find system recovery you will be able to do it this way just like Chris said.
BUT........When you have run it and everything works do a back up of everything using Windows. That never seemed to matter to me untill I blew my hard drive, then finding out that you dont have a disc to reinstall Vista, so your replacement drive is empty, so you dont have Vista to make anything work!

Daz, February 2009

thanks chris will give it a go mate thanks again jimmy

the prince, January 2009

Yes you can, go into My computer right click C drive and click format. That will erase everything off the disk.....but you will have no operating system at all. If you want to format and reinstall windows you will need a disk. Another way to format and reinstall windows is :if you have a system recovery software built in (not system restore), check for this. hope this helps.

Chris, January 2009