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10-28-2005, 05:01 PM
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Please help me downgrade....
Hi everyone, im new to here and computers (the technical side) anyways. Been toying with hardware and such for about 6months now. Got a decent machine put together. But heres my prob.....
I have OS Win x64 on my machine. And I would like to go back to XP home edition. I have both CD's. What is the best way to go about this? Steps please...noobie  ...
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10-28-2005, 05:05 PM
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Welcome aboard. Do you have any data you want to save on that hard drive?
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10-28-2005, 05:07 PM
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Nope, cant get anything to go on the machine 1st of all....lol
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10-28-2005, 05:10 PM
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As long as you have an XP Home CD and the Product Key, check the bios and set the boot sequence so the CD drive is before the hard drive. Then insert the XP Home CD in the drive, save and exit from the bios and watch for this message on the screen, "Press any key to boot from CD..." Press a key or the space bar at that point. The new installation will begin. Follow the prompts for a new installation and when the previous installation is found, Delete all partitions and do a fresh install from the Unpartitioned Space. Chose to format in NTFS. Should be easy from there.
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10-28-2005, 05:26 PM
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Thanks for the quick response, im in the process now....
 Format "quick"? or normal?? |
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10-28-2005, 05:27 PM
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I'd do a full - normal - format.
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10-28-2005, 05:31 PM
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Thanks again, "they" are correct learn something new everyday.....
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