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You cannot format the drive / partition that Windows Vista is currently running on while it is running. You will need to boot from either a partition utility disc, such as GParted, or the install disc of the operating system you want to install, and format the drive from there.

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Q: How do you format windows vista when an error keep coming up that keeps saying can not format this volume of windows you are using this operating system?
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