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How do i get rid of Vista?, Please help me its urgent
nikaru900
post Jul 4 2007, 03:02 PM
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I have a Store bought PC, It has Vista running on it... However i have grown to dislike Vista for many reasons and i want to go to XP. I want to Format my PC so i can get XP on the machine.

I have the XP install disk thats not the problem, The problem is when i boot up the disk it says it is loading up the drivers and what not, then when it finishes loading up the drivers i get a blue error screen saying that "The computer has been shut down to prevent harm to your PC" (or something like that)

I just want to get rid of vista and put XP on the machine, yet it wont let me, can somebody please help me? i dont want vista anymore...

Also there is 2 drives, C and D, the C drive has all the normal files and the D drive has the "Recovery" files, i dont care about the Recovery i just want my pc wiped and XP being installed on it.

Someone please help me with my problem. Thank you in advance
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- nikaru900   How do i get rid of Vista?   Jul 4 2007, 03:02 PM
- - adamhussein89   Have you tried pressing F8 when your machine first...   Jul 4 2007, 06:00 PM
- - nikaru900   That isnt the problem, as i said, it was able to b...   Jul 4 2007, 11:47 PM
- - Codeman0013   Sounds like it could be one of many issues. You ca...   Jul 6 2007, 09:38 AM
- - nikaru900   I bought the disk from a PC shop in my area, the d...   Jul 6 2007, 01:10 PM
- - Codeman0013   Ok we ruled out the cd if it works in another mach...   Jul 6 2007, 01:49 PM
- - 123Runner   You may have to run dban (dariks boot and nuke). I...   Jul 6 2007, 05:58 PM
- - nikaru900   I only have 1 CD Drive. I am not smart on the sche...   Jul 6 2007, 10:05 PM
- - tuxmaster   I must ask this question where is this XP disk com...   Jul 7 2007, 02:03 AM
- - nikaru900   The problem isnt the disk.... but if you must know...   Jul 7 2007, 02:15 AM
- - mstrbldr   reformat hard drive. majorgeeks.com/Barts_PE_Buil...   Jul 7 2007, 04:29 PM
- - nikaru900   Sigh..... I am abandoning this thread if nobody a...   Jul 8 2007, 05:44 AM
- - 123Runner   Did you try the DBAN? Have you tried FDISK to clea...   Jul 8 2007, 06:01 AM
- - nikaru900   I dont know how to get an FDisk although it was su...   Jul 8 2007, 02:35 PM
- - 123Runner   You will have to try something different. That is ...   Jul 9 2007, 04:40 AM
- - nikaru900   Ok, one last question i must ask. I have never fo...   Jul 9 2007, 05:41 PM
- - CycleRob   nikaru900, Since your PC is almost new, it must ...   Jul 12 2007, 10:44 PM

 

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