How to reformat my Asus laptop?

Hey guys, I have been experiencing a few problems with my new Asus F8SN due to some installing of programs and minor tweeking. ( http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=235195 and http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=235306) so I was thinking of doing a reformat. Is this advisable? I just want these problems to go away. I was thinking of just saving my music and movies and documents then reformating everything.

Do I just pop in the Recovery CDs that Asus supplied? What other things should I do just to make sure I dont screw up.

 

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u ar doing fine, just backup all your data u need like burn it on a dvd or whtever
then put in the recovery cd, restart the laptop
auto boot to recovery cd choose option 1,2,3 then start format

 

You can also consider creating an Windows install disc from the recovery disc http://www.howtohaven.com/system/createwindowssetupdisk.shtml. This way you can just repair Windows or just reinstall Windows on a partition and leave your data safely on a different partition.

 

Does that guide work with Vista?