My friend tried to downgrade from vista home premium to xp but the xp install is messed up and he can neither install or uninstall xp or vista. Now we need a way to clear everything from his hard drive so we can do a clean install of vista. I have heard of running an msdos application on a floppy but he has no floppy drive and I don't know exactly what I'm looking for. Anybody know what I need? If the files are of questionable legality I would gladly accept them at [email protected]
Erm, its called a reformat. You boot up your Vista disks, and choose to format the partition (or volume as windows calls it) and install onto that.
Theres a problem with that, my friend is stuck half way through an xp install so when I set his pc to boot from the vista disk I cant do anything because its trying to install windows. Also, theres some sort of missing file required to launch the vista installer and an error comes up and the pc restarts afterwards.
What? Whether or not a correctly installed XP partition is there, you should still be able to boot from the Vista CD.
I'll try tomorrow when I get to his pc, I'm new to the whole os installation thing so I'm not really sure If I know what I'm talking about. Thanks for the help!
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ This might also be helpful for you. You will need a windows CD or and i386 folder for it to work though.
Haha, nice suggestion there. A good electromagnet should work. I've heard of killdisk, it's good. ~ Astral
downlaod PCLinuxOS www.GetPCLinuxOS.com and burn it on a CD PCLOS is a live CD, insert it in your drive and restart your PC it will boot up in OS... Click install PCLinuxOS and click format hard drive then restart your PC with Winblows XP in your CD drive and boom there you go