I really do feel like an old timer with this observation. I am installing Windows Vista RTM on the test box, so I revert to my Windows NT 3.51 or greater installer experience and format the previous Vista RC1 partition.
The interesting part to me is that:
- When you click format, you get the hourglass for a few seconds, and then its done. This is clearly not a traditional format. Not sure how I feel about this, but I always wondering why you had to go through that laborious format process instead of just fixing the file system to say it didn't have any files.
- One format to rule them all, NTFS. You cannot choose FAT32 here. I think that is a good thing
One more thing, good riddance to the hideous text mode setup.