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Uninstalling Vista Home Upgrade

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Uninstalling Vista Home Upgrade

Mar 15th, 2007

Hey Folks,

I installed windows vista home upgrade and want to go back to the XP Pro that I was using before. I tried to reinstall XP Pro, but when I insterrt the disk, the option to reinstall XP Pro is greyed out...any idea how I can reinstall XP Pro?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Uninstalling Vista Home Upgrade

Mar 24th, 2007

according to someone in my IT class, when you upgrade to vista it wipes out your XP key, so it's not valid... meaning you can't re-install it :-\

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Re: Uninstalling Vista Home Upgrade

Mar 24th, 2007

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Originally Posted by blkout

Hey Folks,

I installed windows vista home upgrade and want to go back to the XP Pro that I was using before. I tried to reinstall XP Pro, but when I insterrt the disk, the option to reinstall XP Pro is greyed out...any idea how I can reinstall XP Pro?

Thanks in advance!

hi ,i would go to my motherboard manufacturers site and get hard drive utility program ,[maxtors is called maxblast it will work with segate also..]most have them ,boot computer with it and format the drive ,then reload winxp

Linux boot cd http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html