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    Nov 17, 2008, 05:02 PM
    Hardrive wipe out
    Ho do I wipe out my hard drive of window vista:rolleyes:
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    Nov 17, 2008, 05:28 PM

    Why do you want to? What are you going to do with it after wiping it?
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    Nov 17, 2008, 06:26 PM
    Hardrive wipe out
    Well I will reelod windows xp on it, that's way I need to wipe out the windows vista out of threre thank you for your time.


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    Nov 17, 2008, 06:52 PM

    First please don't start a new thread for follow-up. Use the Answer This question options to post a response. I've merged the tw threads for you.

    I do not recommend downgrading a Vista machine to XP. A Vista machine is optimized for Vista and some of the hardware may not work with XP. So you should check that first.

    But what you want to do is boot to your XP CD and do a fresh install of XP.
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    Nov 17, 2008, 06:58 PM
    Well it work with windows xp as well, it's a custom build sir I was just testing and see how it work that's all but know I don know how to wipe the hard drive I can drop the cd for xp in there and make a frest start sometime like that thank again for you time.
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    Nov 17, 2008, 07:26 PM

    That's what a fresh install does, it wipes the HD before installing XP
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