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How To Format Hard Drive To Uninstall Vista And Install Winxp?

Posted in Format Hard Drive by manyu time 25 Nov Bookmark and Share

If you wants to uninstall WindowsVista and install Windows XP but doesn’t know how to format her hard drive,there is method!Formatting a hard drive prepares the disk surface to accept and store data. It is important to format the hard drive before selling, donating, or returning a computer to an employer. Likewise, users can format a hard drive to remove viruses or errors and return a computer to its’ “out of the box” settings. 

Format a Hard Drive with Windows XP

  • To format a hard drive with Windows XP or 2000, insert Windows CD and restart your computer.
  • Your computer should automatically boot from the CD to the Windows Setup Main Menu.
  • At the Welcome to Setup page, press ENTER.
  • Press F8 to accept the Windows XP Licensing Agreement.
  • If an existing Windows XP installation is detected, you are prompted to repair it. To bypass the repair, press ESC.
  • Use the ARROW keys to select the partition or the unpartitioned space where you want to create a new partition. Press D to delete an existing partition, or press C to create a new partition.
  • Type the size in megabytes (MB) that you want to use for the new partition, and then press ENTER, or just press ENTER to create the partition with the maximum size.
  • Select the format option that you want to use for the partition (Recommended: NTFS), and then press ENTER.
  • After the Windows Setup program formats the partition, follow the instructions that appear on the screen to continue installing Windows.

    • Reinstall Windows XP

    1. To reinstall Windows XP or 2000, imply insert Windows CD and restart your computer.
    2. If your hard drive has not been formatted, Windows XP will walk you through the process to format the hard drive described above.
    3. Your computer will automatically boot from the CD and begin the installation process

    Uninstall Vista

    You cannot downgrade Vista to Windows XP. To load XP on your computer again, you will first need to remove Vista entirely, reformat your entire hard drive, and then reload Windows XP on your computer.

    Step 1. Before you uninstall Vista, back up all your files, have your Windows XP disk handy, and create an MS-DOS boot CD. You can easily create an MS-DOS boot CD by downloading the files at the following site: http://www.allbootdisks.com.

    Step 2. Before you start the process, go into your BIOS settings and ensure that your CD-ROM drive has the highest drive priority and not the disk drive or some other drive. This will ensure that your MS-DOS boot CD will load up before Vista.

    Step 3. Restart your computer with the MS-DOS boot CD inserted into your drive. A setup menu should pop up. You should select or type “R” to repair an existing installation in the setup menu.

    Step 4. After typing “R” in the setup menu, type the following command:

    fixboot C:\.

    If your Vista root is not on C drive, replace “C” with the appropriate drive letter.

    Step 5. Input the following command: fixmbr C:\. After this command has been entered, type EXIT. You can now close this setup program and restart your computer. When you restart your computer, ensure that the MS-DOS boot CD is loaded in the CD-ROM drive.

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