G1S. need help on fresh vista install

Hello all, I wanted to do a fresh install of vista to remove all bloatware as recommended on this forum. I inserted the recovery disk and rebooted. windows recovery asked me whether I want to recover to whole disk, one partition or whole dist two partitions. I do not know what the difference is but I chose first partition and after the recovery process everything was still even the software I installed. I later tried to make the bios boot from the DVD but the DVD drive kept making sounds, then rebooting, then more sounds, then rebooting, etc. How do I make a clean install of vista. Basically I want to format the first partition and install vista.

 

You can't use a restore disc. The restore discs restore your system to factory settings. You need to find a Vista install disc, either an OEM or an Anytime Upgrade disc.

 

"even the software I installed."

Well you could always format the first partition, in that way you're sure there's no way that the old bloated system can creep into the new one.

Or maybe the software was installed on the second partition? Then it's normal that it's still there, but the registry settings for it are no longer valid so probably it won't work properly.

You can actually use a restore disk to make a clean Vista install. Two things:

1. Do not insert the driver & app CD when you are asked to. Instead, reboot the computer.
2. Do not reboot the computer when the restore tells you to do so. It's a bug, actually it still has to configure things.

 

does n't the restore disk restore vista and the other disk restore the bloatware? The thing would not boot from the restore disk. and I Can find not documentation what choices I should make the restore. Do I have a defective restore disk. It can be opened from inside vista normally.

 

"does n't the restore disk restore vista and the other disk restore the bloatware? "

Yes, please see my first message. The 2nd disk also installs drivers.

Your choice was correct, install to 1st partition will remove the old Windows, but keep your data on the 2nd partition intact.

Are you booting correctly from the restore disk? Press ESC at asus splashscreen during reboot, making sure you have the recovery disk inside. Then choose the CD/DVD at the popup menu to boot from. That should do it.

 

yes.. I tried to press esc. and tried to make the DVD rom the first boot device from the bios. I even shut the notebook down during booting to force a recovery. somehow the system can not boot from the recovery dvd. I do nto know why. I can not get to the screen I made the first recovery installation from.

 

Try cleaning the dust from the DVD?

Otherwise, try removing all other boot devices from BIOS, not just placing them after the DVD. I'm getting some quirky behavior out of the boot devices right now from my M6Ne, that's why I'm suggesting this.

Otherwise, there's no choice but to restore from the recovery partition (F9 at ASUS splashscreen) and remove the bloatware manually...