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Hi Folks,
I need to remove SP2 in order to install an earlier version of windows on my computer. Is there a way that I can do this. Ta very much |
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:50:44 -0700, JC
wrote: I need to remove SP2 in order to install an earlier version of windows on my computer. Is there a way that I can do this. Why do you "need" to do this? It's a very bad thing to do. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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Hi Ken,
I have an old computer and I want to wipe the hard drive so that I may resinstall xp afresh. The problem is the computer is running a newer version of the windows than the setup disk i have. It keeps telling me it can't install because the windows on the computer is newer than the windows on the disk. I have tried to boot this cd from reboot and this doesn't work either. Someone else told me the problem may because of sp2 and I thought if I removed this, then I could run the older setup disk! Can yopu help? Ta JC "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:50:44 -0700, JC wrote: I need to remove SP2 in order to install an earlier version of windows on my computer. Is there a way that I can do this. Why do you "need" to do this? It's a very bad thing to do. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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JC wrote:
Hi Ken, I have an old computer and I want to wipe the hard drive so that I may resinstall xp afresh. The problem is the computer is running a newer version of the windows than the setup disk i have. It keeps telling me it can't install because the windows on the computer is newer than the windows on the disk. I have tried to boot this cd from reboot and this doesn't work either. Someone else told me the problem may because of sp2 and I thought if I removed this, then I could run the older setup disk! Can yopu help? Ta JC If you're trying to do a fresh install of XP, whatever it is your'e doing isn't working. A fresh install won't give a refusal to install because of what's there already; it will just go ahead and start the install process. It doesn't sound like you're booting from the XP CD. Assuming you have the CD, that's what you must accomplish. If you aren't getting a chance to boot from the CD, you may have to go into your BOS settings and tell it to try to boot from the CD first, and then from the hard drive. Once you get that straight and boot from the CD, it'll come up with a message about "press a key to boot from the cd ... " and when you do that, you'll be in the install process. Next just delete and recreate the partition, and let the screen instructions guide you. Back up your data first, of course, as everything is going to get wiped out. You'll have to restore your data back to the machine and reinstall the XP hotfixes, probaby best with autoupdate, etc.. HTH Pop` "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:50:44 -0700, JC wrote: I need to remove SP2 in order to install an earlier version of windows on my computer. Is there a way that I can do this. Why do you "need" to do this? It's a very bad thing to do. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:48:01 -0700, JC
wrote: I have an old computer and I want to wipe the hard drive so that I may resinstall xp afresh. OK, I'm almost always against doing this, but at least I understand the issue now. See below: The problem is the computer is running a newer version of the windows than the setup disk i have. It keeps telling me it can't install because the windows on the computer is newer than the windows on the disk. It's telling you this because you are trying to do the installation incorrectly. When you do it correctly, it formats the drive, and doesn't care in the slightest what's on the drive to start out. I have tried to boot this cd from reboot and this doesn't work either. That's what you have to do. To boot from the CD, you have to set the boot order to CD first in the BIOS setup program. How to get into your BIOS depends, not on Windows, but on what motherboard/BIOS you have. As a matter of fact, you have to access the BIOS before Windows even starts to boot. One common way is to press the Del key when you first power on, but that's not necessarily right for your computer. Watch the screen carefully when you first boot; there's often a message there telling you what to do. If not, check your system documentation or check with your vendor. Also look he http://michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm Or just try the Del key. There's a good chance that's correct for you. Once you get into the BIOS and change the boot order, just boot from the Windows XP CD (change the BIOS boot order if necessary to accomplish this) and follow the prompts for a clean installation (delete the existing partition by pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one). You can find detailed instructions he http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html or here http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how...windows_xp.htm or here http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm Someone else told me the problem may because of sp2 and I thought if I removed this, then I could run the older setup disk! That "someone" told you the wrong thing. The previous version is pertinent for some situations, but it's not here. "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:50:44 -0700, JC wrote: I need to remove SP2 in order to install an earlier version of windows on my computer. Is there a way that I can do this. Why do you "need" to do this? It's a very bad thing to do. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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