Installing Win 7 by formatting disk

roxwindy

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Jun 20, 2010
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Hi,
I've been trying to format my drive and install a fresh copy of Windows 7. Apparently I ran the setup file smoothly until I've reached the stage whereby I should have a tab to allow me to "Format" the drive, but I don't see that tab. I have no idea how to format this drive at the moment.

I tried to run the installation by booting through CD, but my bootup don't seem to detect the CD which I burn Win7 onto.

Can anyone help me on this issue? I have a 36GB WD Raptor and have only 1.4GB free of space at the moment, so I can't install the OS over and delete off the "old windows". It requires me 9GB of free space to do so. I can't do a clean format on my OS drive at all.


Thanks.
 

saran008

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1.Boot from DVD.
2.On the Hard disk page, select your C: drive, and click Advanced, and click Format.
You can find format option in the Advanced tab.
3. Continue the installation screen to install the OS.

Hope this helps!