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installing xp on second drive
Name: aehetag Date: July 2, 2007 at 22:55:14 Pacific OS: Windows Vista Basic CPU/Ram: Core 2 Duo 1.66 GHz 2048 Product: Toshiba
Comment:
I have vista basic on my main hard drive, and, quite frankly, I am fed up with it. I do not have the luxury of uninstalling it (through the various convoluted ways), but I have a second hard drive. I tried booting from the XP professional CD but it said I didn't have any version of windows and that I needed to put in an earlier version disk for verification. Any ideas?
Name: Walter Mitty Date: July 3, 2007 at 00:33:27 Pacific
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M$ state that you install the oldest O/S first unless you implement a 3rd party boot manager. Also you need a second drive or partition where you install XP.
Do you have a Retail Full XP CD or is this an Upgrade version ? maybe it is a Dell/HP/IBM etal OEM CD ?
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Response Number 2
Name: Sabertooth Date: July 3, 2007 at 08:33:35 Pacific
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If you have specific Vista issues that you need help resolving then spill it. However, if you need help installing XP - repost at the XP forum.
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