I was given a new to me pc with a Windows 7 30 day trial installed. The 30 days is just about up and I don’t want to buy it. I want to install the XP I already own on the pc. When I boot the pc with the XP disk in I am getting the following message:
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you are seeing this message etc etc etc
Check for viruses. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check you hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption and the restart
***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
Results of doing the above: No viruses found. CHKDSK /F found no problems. Not sure how to check if it’s properly configured, but I’m guessing Windows 7 wouldn’t run if it wasn’t… The hard drive is new to this pc, but all has been running fine with Windows 7 so do I really need to remove the hard drive and controllers?
How can I get this OS off???
