Last Month, gu...@unknown-email.com (Brink) from setup Google Group says (in How To: Re: Re-installing and Formatting Windows Vista) Hello Ladiesman,
Your laptop should have a recovery partition or set of recovery discs
to do format your hard drive and do a factory restore of Vista with.
What brand is your laptop? I'll see if I can find the instructions for
you on how to do a factory restore with it. :)
Shawn

And Gina Trapani from Lifehacker says (in Separate Your Data from Windows on a Standalone Partition [How To]) Accessing data from multi-booting operating systems is easier. If you're both curious but apprehensive about upgrading to Windows 7, you can have your operating system cake and eat it too by dual (or triple) booting your system. If you do decide to dual boot Windows 7 alongside your existi...

And CJHenley from TechNet Blogs says (in Installing Windows 7 RC1 Using a bootable USB Drive) This will remove all files from the disk. 

1.  I put the Windows 7 RC1 install disk in the DVD drive.  (make a quick mental note of the drive letter of the DVD drive and the drive letter of the USB drive.)

4.  Lastly we copy all of the files from the Windows 7 RC1 DVD to the USB drive.

3 Months Ago, adacosta.spaces.live.com says (in Getting your PC ready for Windows 7 Release Candidate) A Look at Windows Backup and Windows Update in 7  

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