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Cannot reinstall xp with vista even in by booting with the c

Feb 16, 2007 9:28AM PST

hi,

i noticed im not the only one having this problem but, i installed vista and wasnt satified with it so i tried reinstalling xp but after loading the drivers and stuff i got a blue screen, does any you know if there is a way to fix that, my pc doesnt have any problems, its brand new, new hard drive ect.

Thanks a lot

ow and btw, if i insert the cd in vista the install windows xp is grey-ed out

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Feb 16, 2007 9:30AM PST

when i said '' loading drivers and stuff'' i meant the first thing that appears when u start installing xp

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Wipe the drive...
Feb 16, 2007 9:59AM PST

The best thing to do in a situation such as that is use the free program DBAN to wipe the drive for a fresh start...just burn the ISO to CD and boot to it. It does take a while to complete the process, but once it's done your hard drive will be about as 'clean' as it can get, which should eliminate the installation problems.

Hope this helps,
John

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weird
Feb 16, 2007 10:51AM PST

I tried it and it took like 15 seconds, is that normal or is there something else i have to do ? because once again i tried installing xp and still didnt work Sad

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I use the MES disc or floppy
Feb 16, 2007 10:09AM PST

'Morguds Erasure Suite' option three, nukes the first 63 clusters of the drive, you can then use whatever setup to partition, format, and set active then install XP without any residual Vista- I've heard Vista somwhow tattoos a drive as having had Vista on it, much like XP tattoos any drive that's ever booted as a slave- you can't have it out and use in another machine to load XP on unless you do this or something like it (Manufacturers disk "Restore to Like New")

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no floppy disk
Feb 16, 2007 10:26AM PST

hmmm the pc doesn't have a floppy disk drive, is there a way to use a cd instead ?

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Use one of the
Mar 21, 2007 12:06PM PDT

Boot disc CD burning softwares- floppy disk emulation, etc, make a cd from the booting floppy, or borrow a USB floppy drive.

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fdisk
Mar 21, 2007 11:35AM PDT

Have you tried using a Windows 98 boot floppy, and running the DOS command,
"fdisk /mbr" ?
You can get one at bootdisk.com and you can make a bootable CD based off that floppy by using a standard CD burning program's bootable CD option. However, to do that, the computer with the CD burner needs a floppy drive or a floppy emulator program.
Hope this helps,
DH