Re: Can't reinstall. Why?

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Wiley wrote:
Bruce,



The advice I'm looking for specifically is how to get friggin' Vista off my computer so I can use my tried and true version of XP Pro. I believe that I should be fine loading XP Pro because I loaded it once already in Virtual PC on my computer and verified that it was up and running there. That would tell
me, I believe, that I have the necessary driver for the IDE/SATA controller.


No, it wouldn't mean that at all. I can't even begin to imagine how anyone could think it would.

Successfully installing and using WinXP in a virtual machine's simulated generic "hardware" environment would have absolutely *NO* bearing on how well WinXP would install and work directly on real, and very different, hardware. The host OS and its device drivers are providing all of the interaction between the hardware and the guest OS.


My problem is I want to start over again, completely reformat my hard drive and load XP Pro as my primary operating system and it won't let me.

Any advice specific to this issue?


Again, contact the computer's manufacturer to see if the computer can be made to support WinXP and obtain any necessary device drivers.


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