Can't reinstall. Why?

you can use a floppy drive to reformate the disk drive. you can use a
utility like norton partition magic. having that kind of utility on a floppy
disk is usful. it still lets you do the same stuff as if you were do it
through the windows version. it is just much simpler. and it will let you
leave the recovery partition alone if there is one.

when using te utility just delete the vista partition. and leave the
recovery partition alone if there is one. after that you should be able to
boot from the XP boot CD and install XP. there are other floppy utilities
for formating the hard drive as well. i suggest letting the XP installer
format the hard drive.
"dobey" wrote in message
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"Steven Wabik" wrote in message
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first of all what PC do you have? it would be helpful in knowing. at
times of of the newer PCs just do not support XP at all. i have noticed
it in some of them. some can boot from the XP install CD and some can
not. i think it is something in the vista partition.

i know this because i beta tested vista under a dual boot configuration.
at this point do you still have vista on your PC? as long as vista is
installed, the XP install CD will not load.... microsoft pointed that out
on the windows vista beta web site. first of all we need to get vista
poff of the PC...

is there a partitioning utility in the vista recovery CD? or do you have
a floppy drive and can you use a floppy drive to reformate the disk? if
you use the v recovery disk to partition the hard disk, just delete the
main partition, do not create any new ones if possibile.




I have heard some suggestion XP won't/can't install on Vista's version of
NTFS.