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Re: Details on not being able to run Windows XP on my vista by stephanecharette » Tue Sep 23, pm richazu wrote: Now I have an XP cd, which is not bootable, so I downloaded a file called boot. If you want a bootable XP disc, copy the contents to your hard drive in an empty folder, download nLite and run that program over the XP files. The result is a bootable ISO. Its a clean copy. This same copy passed the Windows genuine advantage I need help. If you want this to work, you need to enable Host Interface Networking as described in the manual.

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Answered by caperjack in a post from 13 Years Ago. DOS ,instead of just using the winxp cd Jump to Post. Hope that helps a bit. Edited 11 Years Ago by disaksen because: spelling. Facebook Like. I have a lot of work on it,but its vital I get it working and then just start again with it all. This CD dosnt boot me into a normal setup, and I have to use the 6 boot disks to the reinstall point.

I reformated the hard drive, and started reinstalling XP Pro, til I got a message warning setup file was corrupted and couldnt continue. Its an utter nightmare, and I still cant believe its all because someone turned it off improperly. I'd be prepared to wipe everything I believe its be formatted anyway during a failed reinstall of XP Pro as described and just install windows Me to get it functioning again.

I havnt tried this, so I'll give it a go. If it gets the PC up again I'm happy to erase work on it. I went for a total wipe, even though there was still the partition there.

I reckon a virus may be lurking inside, and its better off to have a clean slate. Fdisk worked fine and sorted things out ready for a new partition. The clean install is going well so far and there are no start up errors. Tha hard drive is cool, and all seems well again. I tried unplugging the ribbon and reinstalling with no success from that either. Please Help! I had a problem that first dealt with a BIOS password, and that took me plenty long to try back door passwords with no luck, and finally being able to find the jumper switch bypassing the password completly.

Thank you again for information DJ Beaver. So, I've tried your advice with booting through bios and setting drive 1 to cdrom, yet I can't access the same screen as described, neither f1, f2, f9, f10, f11, f12 and del.

Any help from that would be great for how to get into bios setup screen. The cdrom seems to be the primary boot anyhow.

I've also tried adding a second hard drive, with failure of sata ports, it's an HP Compaq dc flat form desktop. The hard drive 40G seems to also be secured with two screws that are directly next to the motherboard, does this mean I have to take out the motherboard just to unscrew it, or is there an easier way? There's also a green tab, and people on other forums say just to lift the tab, but still nothing.

Sorry for the 5 year old bullshit problems, but it is difficult for me to find help over some of the most simplest things when it comes to hardware and bios problems. Thanks again, DJ Beaver. I have been trying to boot up winxp this whole time of course, and I had a boot disk with sp2, but the computer says there's hardware problems and won't boot from disk.