How to reinstall Vista with no Bloatware?​?

Hi guys, I was just wondering how to go about reinstalling my Windows Vista Business edition which came preinstalled with all these ads telling me to purchase various stuff from lenovo. Ideally i want to format the whole HDD, remove the hidden parition and just reinstall Windows Vista normally without any of the non-essential things. It didnt come with a Windows Vista install disc rather a rescue and recovery disc and now i accidentally formatted my hidden partition. Cheers

Hi, widgetz! For what you want to do you'll need a partition manager like Paragon Partition Manager or PowerQuest Partition Manager. Of course, any other partition manager will do. You can also use eg, LiveCD Linux distribution like PartEdMagic which is, almost exclusively, used for disk partitioning. Then you partition your hdd. An example of layout for a 120gb hdd might be 20gb for os, 80gb for media and 20 gb for temporary internet/p2p downloads.
Then, as you don't like bloat, your advised to use nLite, a cute little freeware to remove unwanted/not needed/bloated parts of Vista. But if your newbee, then I suggest to install VirtualBox and try everything in a virtual machine and then on  your laptop.

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