do tell vista beta 2 not keep my old windows xp

Hello,
I have a machine I would like to install Vista beta 2 (public version) onto an Athlon 64 3200+ machine that already has XP Pro. SP2. I would like to have Vista use C: drive for installation, but I do not want a dual boot. I want it to erase C: drive and install cleanly. How can I force this?
I kept getting dual boot in Windows XP and outside without the option to make drive C clean. I do want to keep my other partitions that Ghost images, datas, etc.
Thank you in advance. -- Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: phillip_pi@symantec.comSYMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you.

Boot from the Disk and select the drive and install, it should over write the Windows directory and Vista should be your new OS, although, remnants of the previous OS will be kept in the Windows.old directory, you can safely delete if your data has been backed up. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Phillip Pi" wrote in message

Hello,
I have a machine I would like to install Vista beta 2 (public version) onto an Athlon 64 3200+ machine that already has XP Pro. SP2. I would like to have Vista use C: drive for installation, but I do not want a dual boot. I want it to erase C: drive and install cleanly. How can I force this?
I kept getting dual boot in Windows XP and outside without the option to make drive C clean. I do want to keep my other partitions that Ghost images, datas, etc.
Thank you in advance. -- Phillip Pi Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst ISP/Symantec Online Services Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com ----------------------------------------------------- Email: phillip_pi@symantec.comSYMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail) ----------------------------------------------------- Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Thank you.

Phillip Pi wrote:

Hello,
I have a machine I would like to install Vista beta 2 (public version) onto an Athlon 64 3200+ machine that already has XP Pro. SP2. I would like to have Vista use C: drive for installation, but I do not want a dual boot. I want it to erase C: drive and install cleanly. How can I force this?
I kept getting dual boot in Windows XP and outside without the option to make drive C clean. I do want to keep my other partitions that Ghost images, datas, etc.

Boot the PC with the Vista DVD in the drive and start setup that way. Choose to do a custom install. During this process you will be presented with a screen where you can choose the partition on which to install Vista. Select the existing partition that has XP and delete it. Then choose the free space created by the deletion as the location on which to install Vista. -- Tom Porterfield

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Phillip Pi wrote: Hello,
I have a machine I would like to install Vista beta 2 (public version) onto an Athlon 64 3200+ machine that already has XP Pro. SP2. I would like to have Vista use C: drive for installation, but I do not want a dual boot. I want it to erase C: drive and install cleanly. How can I force this?
I kept getting dual boot in Windows XP and outside without the option to make drive C clean. I do want to keep my other partitions that Ghost images, datas, etc.
Boot the PC with the Vista DVD in the drive and start setup that way. Choose to do a custom install. During this process you will be presented with a screen where you can choose the partition on which to install Vista. Select the existing partition that has XP and delete it. Then choose the free space created by the deletion as the location on which to install Vista. -- Tom Porterfield

You don't have to delete the partition (and may not want to if it is not the only partition). Just click on the Format button.