format after vista install

I am planning to install the Vista Beta to a new hard drive I just purchased for my toshiba laptop, a 2 year old laptop running a Mobile Pent IV 3.06 GHZ. After seeing how it goes and whether the Toshiba will run Vista, I plan to reformat the drive and then restore my previous (old hard drive) images to the new hard drive, as I don't really think I can run enough on the beta vista at this point. Will I have any issues reformating the drive after the Vista install...or just restoring the images over the Vista partiton? I thought I read a post by someone who said they got error messages when trying to reformat...but perhaps I'm mistaken.
Thank you.

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I am planning to install the Vista Beta to a new hard drive I just purchased for my toshiba laptop, a 2 year old laptop running a Mobile Pent IV 3.06 GHZ. After seeing how it goes and whether the Toshiba will run Vista, I plan to reformat the drive and then restore my previous (old hard drive) images to the new hard drive, as I don't really think I can run enough on the beta vista at this point. Will I have any issues reformating the drive after the Vista install...or just restoring the images over the Vista partiton? I thought I read a post by someone who said they got error messages when trying to reformat...but perhaps I'm mistaken.
Thank you.

Before you do that backup is your friend. I backed XP to my exteral HD before I installed Vista on the primary. That will make it easier to migate favorites and all mail address and such. Once you have everything backed up do a clean install on the primary. Just my opinon based on my experience on what happened on my system. I might have it easier because I have a relativly new P4 system.
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