need reintall have few questions

After installing Vista this weekend and having a little bit of driver issues Vista is running well. I still have a few problems like a almost 5 min boot time and a few other driver issued with Nvidia. I would like to get Vista to start off from scratch again.
My thinking is since I have Xp 64 on one partion and Vista 64 in the other I would do a reformat of the two hard drives that I have install each OS on their own HD instead of having both on the same HD. That way everything is clean. Right now I do have a issue if I do not have the Vista DVD in the rom it will not boot to Vista and Vista Boot Pro has not been able to fix this issue.
I am just trying to figure out with Vista what is the best way to get everything all cleaned and re-installed again. I want Xp64 to be my stable OS were right now it has a lot of Beta stuff on it like office and have Vista 64 be my Beta fun.
Thanks

I would not bother to do put them on separate drives just to be arranging things that way. Have you tried running the repair on the Install Now screen? That might fix the boot options so that you do not need the dvd in the drive.
"Neal" wrote in message

After installing Vista this weekend and having a little bit of driver issues Vista is running well. I still have a few problems like a almost 5 min boot time and a few other driver issued with Nvidia. I would like to get Vista to start off from scratch again.
My thinking is since I have Xp 64 on one partion and Vista 64 in the other I would do a reformat of the two hard drives that I have install each OS on their own HD instead of having both on the same HD. That way everything is clean. Right now I do have a issue if I do not have the Vista DVD in the rom it will not boot to Vista and Vista Boot Pro has not been able to fix this issue.
I am just trying to figure out with Vista what is the best way to get everything all cleaned and re-installed again. I want Xp64 to be my stable OS were right now it has a lot of Beta stuff on it like office and have Vista 64 be my Beta fun.
Thanks

When you refer to "repair" are you referring to build 5384 ? My first screen which has "Install now . . " does not have any "repair" option that I can see even in one of the sub-menus. I would like to do a Repair Install like you can do with WinXP. -- Regards
Peter Horsley phorsley@<NO SPAM>melbpc.org.au ________________________________________________
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

I would not bother to do put them on separate drives just to be arranging things that way. Have you tried running the repair on the Install Now screen? That might fix the boot options so that you do not need the dvd in the drive.
"Neal" wrote in message After installing Vista this weekend and having a little bit of driver issues Vista is running well. I still have a few problems like a almost 5 min boot time and a few other driver issued with Nvidia. I would like to get Vista to start off from scratch again.
My thinking is since I have Xp 64 on one partion and Vista 64 in the other I would do a reformat of the two hard drives that I have install each OS on their own HD instead of having both on the same HD. That way everything is clean. Right now I do have a issue if I do not have the Vista DVD in the rom it will not boot to Vista and Vista Boot Pro has not been able to fix this issue.
I am just trying to figure out with Vista what is the best way to get everything all cleaned and re-installed again. I want Xp64 to be my stable OS were right now it has a lot of Beta stuff on it like office and have Vista 64 be my Beta fun.
Thanks

It is not a repair install. I recall seeing a button for repairing the Vista boot file during setup. It may be on a later screen than I remember now.
"Peter Horsley" wrote in message

When you refer to "repair" are you referring to build 5384 ? My first screen which has "Install now . . " does not have any "repair" option that I can see even in one of the sub-menus. I would like to do a Repair Install like you can do with WinXP. -- Regards
Peter Horsley phorsley@<NO SPAM>melbpc.org.au ________________________________________________
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message I would not bother to do put them on separate drives just to be arranging things that way. Have you tried running the repair on the Install Now screen? That might fix the boot options so that you do not need the dvd in the drive.
"Neal" wrote in message After installing Vista this weekend and having a little bit of driver issues Vista is running well. I still have a few problems like a almost 5 min boot time and a few other driver issued with Nvidia. I would like to get Vista to start off from scratch again.
My thinking is since I have Xp 64 on one partion and Vista 64 in the other I would do a reformat of the two hard drives that I have install each OS on their own HD instead of having both on the same HD. That way everything is clean. Right now I do have a issue if I do not have the Vista DVD in the rom it will not boot to Vista and Vista Boot Pro has not been able to fix this issue.
I am just trying to figure out with Vista what is the best way to get everything all cleaned and re-installed again. I want Xp64 to be my stable OS were right now it has a lot of Beta stuff on it like office and have Vista 64 be my Beta fun.
Thanks