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| 779923 | 2009-06-05 11:00:00 | Some months ago I set up an old Dell computer which had been happily running Win XP on an Intel Celeron 2 . 2 Ghz with the RAM bumped up to 1 . 50 GB, with the beta of Windows 7 as a demonstrator . Now I want to turn it back to Windows XP but am having great difficulty, and apparently so are a lot of others . I found a Microsoft website with advice to look for a file called Windows Old without success . I tried to reinstall from the Windows 7 beta CD as this was the advice given, but it would not reinstall as the HDD is only 20GB . So I tried using a Win XP recovery disk but the Install function was greyed out . Then I used a Win 98 Startup disk to see if I could install Win 98 SE and then install XP over that . However the large partition was NTFS and formatting did not remove that . However Win 98 SE went so far nearly to the stage where you put in the time zones etc, that I thought we had won, but it stopped and refused to continue installing . Short of changing the HDD does anyone know a way out of this? is there a way of formatting the HDD so I can do a clean install? Sabre |
Sabre (285) | ||
| 779924 | 2009-06-05 11:03:00 | Eh? Just delete/format the partitions with windows 7. Download Gparted, or you can do it from command prompt on W7 CD. Select repair my computer during installation. Or from recovery console... Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 779925 | 2009-06-05 11:30:00 | Not sure why you cannot just boot to the XP CDROM and blow the W7 partition(s) away and do a clean install of XP? | johnd (85) | ||
| 779926 | 2009-06-05 12:14:00 | Not sure why you cannot just boot to the XP CDROM and blow the W7 partition(s) away and do a clean install of XP? Thats the easiest way - boot up from the XP CD, work through the prompts, it will locate the existing partitions, follow instructions on screen to delete partitions -- install XP. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 779927 | 2009-06-05 20:44:00 | The computer is a Small Form Factor Dell Optiplex GX60. When it starts up there are two options given F2 Setup and F12 Boot menu. F12 gives me the Boot Device menu but the keyboard does not work so I can not change the choices. F2 gives me Windows Error Recovery which goes to Launch Startup Repair and Enter toggles between these screens but it says a required device is inaccessible. The rest of the keys do not operate. After messing about with these keys and ESC and Delete it now will only boot into the Error Recovery screen - no longer boots into Windows. So I will try formatting the HDD again and also try Gparted. |
Sabre (285) | ||
| 779928 | 2009-06-05 22:39:00 | Is the keyboard USB - if so try using a PS2 Board, you may find the BIOS was changed somehow and not allowing the usage of USB. If it is a PS2 Keyboard, try a different board. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 779929 | 2009-06-06 01:24:00 | Try another KB as WT said, you may need USB KB enabled in BIOS to get one to work. | Blam (54) | ||
| 779930 | 2009-06-07 01:59:00 | OK. It is a PS2 keyboard. I will get hold of a different one. Maybe that bigger hammer is needed. | Sabre (285) | ||
| 779931 | 2009-06-15 10:42:00 | Use a boot disk and use command prompt, then type fdisk | TechProX (14940) | ||
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