I wrote you privately, but check your boot order in bios, make sure cdrom has first priority.
At 07:12 PM 11/30/2011, you wrote:
Win7 64 doesn't seem to want to let me do a clean install of Win XP 32 on top of it. It's acting like Hal did in the movie, what's its name, Space Odyssey 2001?, Win7 doesn't want to die.I tried every way I know. Autorun on the Win Xp install disk doesn't autorun.Setup.exe is grayed out on the XP install disk, and does not respond to either clicking from enter; or the physical mouse left click. I thought I'd fool the machine by leaving the XP install disk in the DVD drive, closed the tray, shut down the computer, waited a bit, then turned power on, but the XP install disk was ignored and Win7 booted up normally.I don't get it, what else is there to do? I don't want to image this Win7 somewhere else, I don't need it. I have it elsewhere on disk already. Could I format drive C from within Win7? I didn't try that, I supposed it wouldn't let me do it.Should I partition the 1.5 TB drive first, and try to install XP on that partition? I thought that I'd have a problem when the computer re booted during the installation process, it would boot to drive C where Win7 is installed, and not to the partition where I was trying to install XP.If I can, I'd rather do a clean install of drive C with XP, and wipe out Win7, then partition later, if that's possible. No, I don't have external tools, there's no floppy drive for those little disk forematting and partitioning tools, and the tools I do have on CD are miserably slow I forematted a 160 GB drive once with them, and it took all day, it might take eternity to foremat a 1.5 TB drive, I have to do it with Windows tools..Thanks for any advice, Indigo L
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