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Reformat from vista 64 to XP 64
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Reformat from vista 64 to XP 64
Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Posted by barry
(4 messages posted)
I built a new computer and installed Vista... Big Mistake.
Now I would like to install XP 64 and lose vista forever, however when I try to install
XP it says there are no hard drives and looking for a solution I found that this
is a Microsoft thing to force people to use vista. Short of installing new hard drives
and starting over is there another way? My current set up is an Asus Striker II Extreme/NSE
Intel(R) Core(TM)2Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50 GHz, 4 Gigs of DDR3 and a Gforce 8800 GTX
video card all water cooled with Koolance exos-2, Vista Ultimate 64bit on 4-250 gig
hard drives setup on a Raid strip.
I have checked the motherboard disk and the drivers for XP 64 are there so that shouldn't
be a problem.
Thanx Barry
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re: Reformat from vista 64 to XP 64
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 6:52 am
Posted by Steve
(19683 messages posted)
XP doesn't have Drivers for sata Controllers, so you need to load the Drivers from
a Floppy at the start of the Install. Look for a prompt to Hit F6 to install 3rd
Party Drivers, then just follow the prompts. If you need more details the Internet
is fully of information on the topic.
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re: Reformat from vista 64 to XP 64
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Posted by barry
(4 messages posted)
Hey thanx for the reply,
Yes the drivers are on the motherboard disk and I have made a floppy for each o/s,
there all on the disk. My problem is how to reformat the drives when I try and install
XP it doesn't see the drives. and apparently Western Digital rescue disk to write
0's to the drives does not support Vista 64 only goes up to Vista 34....Wahaaa...
Thanx again, Barry
On Monday, May 12, 2008 at 6:52 am, Steve wrote:
>XP doesn't have Drivers for sata Controllers, so you need to load the Drivers from
>a Floppy at the start of the Install. Look for a prompt to Hit F6 to install 3rd
>Party Drivers, then just follow the prompts. If you need more details the Internet
>is fully of information on the topic.
>
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re: Reformat from vista 64 to XP 64
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Posted by Steve
(19683 messages posted)
For Raid you would normally go into your Raid Bios first, Once the Raid array is
set, then Boot from the XP CD, Hit F6 at the first prompt a minute or so into the
File writing stage. When you get to a prompt to insert the Floppy with the Raid Drivers.
Once Windows loads the sata Raid Drivers it should see your Raid array as one big
terrabyte drive, if that is what you setup in the Raid Bios. At that point the install
should be like any Windows install.
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