Re: unable to reinstall XP SP1

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http://www.bootdisk.com/
if you are using a fat32 file system download a 98 bootdisk and expand it to
a floppy.
boot with the floppy in and you will get the C prompt. From there you can
format the drive/partition XP is on.This will delete everything on that
drive/partition.Then you can reinstall XPSP1.At the present time you have
SP2 and it will not let you install an older version over it .

If you are using a NTFS file system you need to slipstream SP2 into XPSP1 in
order to reinstall.
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

good luck
peterk

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"lorites" <lorites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> have all sorts of small issues on my computer and would like to re-format
> the hard drives and do a complete reinstallation of Windows XP.SP 1 I
> have
> done
> it before but after SP 2 was installed I can not do that because
> ...Setup
> cannot continue because the version of Windows on your computer is newer
> than
> the version on the CD.
> SP2 was listed on add/remove program and I tried to uninstall from there
> but it seems to be still on the system and now is not longer listed
> thereforce I can not try to remove any more
> I try to reboot from the CD directly and on restart using my cd drive as
> primary starting one but nothing work.
> Please help me . I'm really getting crazy


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