Guest Tanti Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 I have two hards drives (1) 10 GB and (2) 220 GB partitioned (110 GB each). I had XP installed on hard drive (2) partition one. I recently installed vista on drive (2) partition two and all worked fine (dual boot). I now want to reinstall xp on the same drive and same partition because I have to format it to eliminate some nasty viruses. I changed BIOS to boot from CD but somehow when I try to reinstall only drive (1) appears as an option. Any solutions pls?
Guest JS Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: REINSTALLING WINDOWS XP Have you tried disconnecting drive 1 and then installing. JS "Tanti" <Tanti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AF32D642-333E-4086-B1B9-7739C060EBB2@microsoft.com... >I have two hards drives (1) 10 GB and (2) 220 GB partitioned (110 GB each). > I had XP installed on hard drive (2) partition one. I recently installed > vista on drive (2) partition two and all worked fine (dual boot). I now > want > to reinstall xp on the same drive and same partition because I have to > format > it to eliminate some nasty viruses. I changed BIOS to boot from CD but > somehow when I try to reinstall only drive (1) appears as an option. Any > solutions pls? >
Guest Bigdawg Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Re: REINSTALLING WINDOWS XP is it sata? you might have to do the F6 on start up and load the sata drivers "JS" <@> wrote in message news:uxLwwsjyHHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Have you tried disconnecting drive 1 and then installing. > > JS > > "Tanti" <Tanti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:AF32D642-333E-4086-B1B9-7739C060EBB2@microsoft.com... >>I have two hards drives (1) 10 GB and (2) 220 GB partitioned (110 GB >>each). >> I had XP installed on hard drive (2) partition one. I recently installed >> vista on drive (2) partition two and all worked fine (dual boot). I now >> want >> to reinstall xp on the same drive and same partition because I have to >> format >> it to eliminate some nasty viruses. I changed BIOS to boot from CD but >> somehow when I try to reinstall only drive (1) appears as an option. Any >> solutions pls? >> > >
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