Satellite A200 - Format C drive and reinstall

Hi,
I have a Toshiba Satellite A200 with a 32 bit windows vista, that was purchased about 4 years ago. It has become extremely slow and crashes on a regular basis. I want to format the C drive and re-install windows vista . I will subsequently re-install all drivers. I have questions about the process
1. I have the recovery disk provided by Toshiba. Is this enough to do what I need above? Does it also have windows, because I checked the disk and couldn't find the windows installation files
2. Will the recovery process format all partitions or only my windows drive (C:). I prefer if it only formats C: drive and not the other drives. However I am still backing up all drives just in case
Thanks for the help.
V

My answers:
# Recovery disc cannot be compared with Microsoft OS installation disc. Microsoft installation disc contains OS only. Recovery disc contains recovery image. This recovery image contains OS, all important drivers, Toshiba specific tools and utilities and some additional software. After recovery image installation everything will be installed and what you must do is to configure OS.
# Recovery process will format whole HDD and al saved data will be deleted. If you are able to install OS using HDD recovery procedure (F8 at start up Repair my computer Toshiba recovery installation) without using recovery DVD than only partition C will be formatted. Your A200 is pretty old and I dont know if this HDD installation was available at this time.
If you have more questions you are welcome.

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