Everything I am finding is something that I think is not going to work for me. I am downloading Disc Wizard 18.0.6030 but I don't think I can make it bootable from a dvd-r. I am going to be installing Windows 7 64 bit fresh and I already wiped my D: drive clean but of course can't format the main drive, C: drive, in Windows as it has the OS on it. If anyone knows of a program to use that is not something built into Windows 7 let me know.
any Linux DVD or USB stick has Gparted on it. You can use that.
Another thing you could do is start any windows installer and use diskpart before actually starting the installation.
press shift+F10 and a command prompt window will come up. Then type the following :
diskpart (wait a bit for diskpart to start)
list disk
select disk # (where # is the number of the disk that corresponds to your C drive)
clean
create part primary
select part 1
active
format fs=ntfs quick
exit
exit
That's all you need. Your entire disk will be clean and when you start installing Windows the installer will see 1 partition on it.
this also eliminates Windows' tendency to create a bunch of system partitions.
Be sure to unplug the D: drive during the installation, Win7 for some reason has a tendency to put the boot sector on another drive than the one the OS is being installed on.
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I already saw this option and when Linux was mentioned or needing a USB stick I gave up on the idea as well Linux ... forget about it for me :S and as for a USB stick well I don't have one available.
here is a bump
I don't understand. You want to wipe the C: Drive?
If you use a windows boot disk (installation disc)
you can wipe all partitions before installing a new version of windows.
At least i never had the issue. Otherwise you gotta use http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php it works really out of the box. Burn it on a disk and click gparted and delete everything you want.
If you want just burn a windows ISO and run the installer. You can wipe the drive or delete the partition and then make a new one and just exit.
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I ended up using Seagate Disc Wizard 18.0.6030 software that made it simple. I was able to do it in the Windows 7 64 bit environment. It was an extremely long way of formatting the drive(s) but it got the job done.
So many tools available in a Linux Live environment for this kind of work.
@Miguel_Sensacion the last time I used anything Linux it borked my pc and I have never touched it again. For me it was a horrible OS to use.
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sad to hear you had a bad time with Linux. Lucky one day there will be GNU Hurd and we all can rest a little easier..