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    partitioned hard drive

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by chris19, Jun 26, 2008.

  1. chris19

    chris19 Newbie

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    i have an acer aspire 5100 and it is running on windows vista, however i want to put it onto windows xp prefessional, is this possible and how do i take the partition out of the hard drive?


    thanks Chris.
     
    chris19, Jun 26, 2008
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    purplegreendave Has a notebook.

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    purplegreendave, Jun 26, 2008
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  3. bigozone

    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    does your laptop have an INTEL CPU or AMD??
     
    bigozone, Jun 26, 2008
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  4. chris19

    chris19 Newbie

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    its a amd and i am wantin to take vista off and put windows xp on
     
    chris19, Jun 26, 2008
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  5. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    get a bootable XP disc....set the first boot priority to CD-ROM....boot from CD....format the vista partition using NTFS complete (not quick) format....and install XP..!!
     
    Andy, Jun 26, 2008
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    thanks ill try it
     
    chris19, Jun 26, 2008
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