the_one_uk
Member
Hi
I brought a new pc with Vista on it but after a month of Vista i was sick of it so decided to go back to a copy of xp i have. So i booted up from xp setup and all seemed fine, did the format but when it restarts to continue the setup it comes back and wants to format the drive agian (this happens everytime it just keeps looping and gettin nowhere) anyway on my last try it rebooted but said it couldnt find any partitions to put xp onto. So i gave up restarted with the vista cd and tried to intsall that but now that is saying pick where i want to install it (or something bout drivers) but the list is empty ! so it wont install either !!
At the moment i have run startup repair from the vista CD and the status says - ' Attempting repairs' but its been like that for at least 30mins, and it wont let me click cancel.
Any help would be greatly appeciated - at the moment i cant install or do anything
I brought a new pc with Vista on it but after a month of Vista i was sick of it so decided to go back to a copy of xp i have. So i booted up from xp setup and all seemed fine, did the format but when it restarts to continue the setup it comes back and wants to format the drive agian (this happens everytime it just keeps looping and gettin nowhere) anyway on my last try it rebooted but said it couldnt find any partitions to put xp onto. So i gave up restarted with the vista cd and tried to intsall that but now that is saying pick where i want to install it (or something bout drivers) but the list is empty ! so it wont install either !!
At the moment i have run startup repair from the vista CD and the status says - ' Attempting repairs' but its been like that for at least 30mins, and it wont let me click cancel.
Any help would be greatly appeciated - at the moment i cant install or do anything