Format Help

I have a toshiba laptop with current WINDOWS VISTA on it...
i wanted to format it but im just wondering if i did it right or not..
i started the laptop with ANYTIME WINDOWS UPGRADE CD and when asked to keep files or (some second option...) i chose the second one...
it took only about 10 minutes to do what it had to do, thats why im not sure if it was a proper format, what i wanted is the format the entire comp, and load the comp with Vista...
has anyone done this before?
the whole desktop got cleared, only recycling bin there now..

can anyone help me out?

 

so do you mean you booted your pc w/ the atud and used option 2 to format it?

so you chose to keep your files? are your other files there, like documents? When you say your desktop is clear except for the recycle bin, what exactly do you mean?

Did you re-install vista after you formated it?

 

before.. my desktop was full of pictures, program shortcuts etc...after the "format" everything was gone... what i wanted, option # 2 did not say KEEP FILES, but it also did not say delete them, i want to get rid of everything

i just put in that disk, the ANYTIME UPGRADE thing,
and when it did its thing, files disappeared, and vista was there...so im not sure if it formatted and installed vista, it was awfully fast

 

A clean install takes about an hour or two.

First, you get this screen:


Then this:


Then the actual install:


Which takes quite a bit of time.

 

yup thats exactly what i did, if it took a lot less time does that mean it was still done properly?

i simply picked the biggest partition which was drive C: than did exactly as shown above, and the same window popped up