Big Problem

[issak999]

hi
my BIG PROBLEM is that i had a virus on my vista harddrive and i tried to reinstall vista wich worked but i then restored my files to where they should be and now i have doubles of everything and about 7gb left on my 200gb hd.
Could anyone tell me how to formate my vista harddrive so i can reinstall vista with no poblems

pc specs
dual core 2.5g
X2 200 gb harddrives
dual booting with vista and XP
vista homebasic
xp professionl
please pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepl easeplease
help if i dont fix this im in big trouble

[ViprXX]

there should be an option to format during vista's setup. make sure to do a full install and not an upgrade install and do a full NTFS format. Unless your computer came with disks to restore it back to factory default then you should just be able to run those and overwrite your files. also, not sure exactly what you mean when you said you restored your files to where they should be after the re-install. do you mean like personal files that you backed up to cd before the re-install?

[issak999]

i checked the vista setup and there was no format option,
yea i did mean personl files from a back i made on a portable harddrive

[ViprXX]

there should be the option to choose what type of install you want. Upgrade or Custom (Advanced). choose Custom and it should ask you what hard drive you want to install it and also have some hard drive options such as delete partition or format the drive.