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Install XP over Beta Vista

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by dave

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I need to reinstall XP Pro over my Beta Vista,
even though I am booting to my CD-Rom it will not do it, how can get it to work, do I need to create
a partition if so how?

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by charliespencer

I've never seen a version of Windows that would allow you to downgrade to a previous version without doing a clean install. If you don't want to do that, you'll need to set up another partition. There are retail partition utilities available, you can search the web for a free utility, or search around here at TR for one of the threads describing how to modify partitions with a Linux boot CD.

by dave

Thanks guys, but I still cannot boot from a CD or disk. I do not get the optiion to press any key to boot from CD- Rom, I have never had this before, even though my CD- Rom is first boot option

by jesus_c

and go to boot options and make sure your cd rom is set as the primary boot device as vista probably set it to the hdd0

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