i will shortly be ordering windows 7 on and installing it on a new 500GB hard disc which will be easy to do. i initially installed the RC version on a 320GB hard disc and would like to format this to recover the disc for further usage. can any one suggest how this should be done?

Boot from Windows 7 DVD, and it'll do it for you.

I hope you know that 7 won't actually ship until October 22.

Originally Posted by Broni

Boot from Windows 7 DVD, and it'll do it for you.

thank you for your quick reply, i feel that in this instance you have miss read my original thread or i have been lax in not saying it in a way my call for help could not be miss-interpreted. Please except my apologies if i have missled you.
1) i want to install windows 7 on a new hard disc i.e. 500GB
and
2) reclaim my 320GB hard disc which has windows 7 RC on it so that i can use it as a slave drive.
To townsbg i would also like to say thank you for the info, i do know that windows 7 will not ship until October 22nd

There are many tools to simply format a hard drive.

GParted is very good:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

If you wish to totally wipe the drive prior to a reformat KillDisk is good:

http://www.killdisk.com/

Originally Posted by jephree

There are many tools to simply format a hard drive.

GParted is very good:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

If you wish to totally wipe the drive prior to a reformat KillDisk is good:

http://www.killdisk.com/

Thank you for the info. i have downloaded " KILLDISC" and i will use it after i install windows 7 on a larger hard disc.

Cool.

Afterwords you will find the drive under Disk Management listed as unallocated.

From here you can Format it from Win 7 and it will be set for storage.

Originally Posted by jephree

Cool.

Afterwords you will find the drive under Disk Management listed as unallocated.

From here you can Format it from Win 7 and it will be set for storage.

thank you for the info. it will save me a lot of headaches

No problem.

Let us know if we can help further.

Originally Posted by jephree

No problem.

Let us know if we can help further.

thank you for your help up to now, now i will wait till i can order the windows 7 in the UK. anfd hopefully i should experience no problems in re formatting the old disc.