installing xp over vista ?

[JG]

We bought a new machine with Vista on it.
However Our Engineering software will not
run on Vista and we really don't like Vista
either (too restrictive).
We would like to just install our XP cd to
the new machine but we cannot figure a way
to do it. Vista will not let me format the drive.
and the XP Cd does nothing on boot, it goes
right back to Vista.
We have not tried the partition dual boot yet
since we really want all the hard drive space
we can get for large Cad files. Can anyone
tell us a rootkit boot program that will allow
us to format the Vista drive so as to allow an
XP installation?

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

We bought a new machine with Vista on it.
However Our Engineering software will not
run on Vista and we really don't like Vista
either (too restrictive).
We would like to just install our XP cd to
the new machine but we cannot figure a way
to do it. Vista will not let me format the drive.
and the XP Cd does nothing on boot, it goes
right back to Vista.
We have not tried the partition dual boot yet
since we really want all the hard drive space
we can get for large Cad files. Can anyone
tell us a rootkit boot program that will allow
us to format the Vista drive so as to allow an
XP installation?

It is not possible for any operating system to format itself off of a hard
drive..

The XP CD has all of the installation tools on it, and as long as the
machine is set to boot from the CD/DVD drive, it will work as intended.

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[JG]

It is not possible for any operating system to format itself off of a hard

drive..

Ok, basically I was referring to how I've typed format c:
at the command prompt every since dos to XP and it has
has always formatted drive c. Then when I rebooted with
the OS cd in the cd drive it would then boot from it, since
C drive no longer had anything on it.

The XP CD has all of the installation tools on it, and as long as the
machine is set to boot from the CD/DVD drive, it will work as intended.

Ok so I would do that in BIOS setup I presume.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

What you really should do is return the new computer for a refund,
then purchase a Dell PC which can be ordered with Windows XP already
installed.

See: http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/vostrodt?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

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Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

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We bought a new machine with Vista on it.
However Our Engineering software will not
run on Vista and we really don't like Vista
either (too restrictive).
We would like to just install our XP cd to
the new machine but we cannot figure a way
to do it. Vista will not let me format the drive.
and the XP Cd does nothing on boot, it goes
right back to Vista.
We have not tried the partition dual boot yet
since we really want all the hard drive space
we can get for large Cad files. Can anyone
tell us a rootkit boot program that will allow
us to format the Vista drive so as to allow an
XP installation?

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Ok, basically I was referring to how I've typed format c:
at the command prompt every since dos to XP and it has
has always formatted drive c. Then when I rebooted with
the OS cd in the cd drive it would then boot from it, since
C drive no longer had anything on it.


Ok so I would do that in BIOS setup I presume.

You presume correctly..


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[David B.]

Lenovo's are loaded with bloatware

 

[Roger Blake]

Lenovos suffer from the same capacitor problem that Dells do. 2 dozen of
them dead within a year.

 

[David B.]

Along with a crapload of other electronics, I've had 3 nvidia cards in the
last 6 months with blown caps, along with motherboards, power supplies, LCD
monitors, etc.

 

[Richard Urban]

Add me to the list of capacitor problems with ASUS motherboards.

 

[David B.]

We built a ton of PC's for our clients about 4 years ago using the Intel
D865GBF motherboard, the cap failure rate on these has been extremely high,
5 specific ones are oozing their guts out and one other seems to be random.
I've been ordering replacement caps in bags of 50 and repairing them with
very good results.