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Reloading Vista from attempted Win 2K Server install - Error!

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by jswilson

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It's a DELL Inspirion 531, came with Vista Home Premium. Got corrupt and we decided to just load Win 2K Server. Got it loaded but none of the components have drivers for Win 2K, so tried to reload Vista and got error code 0xE0000 100 and had to abort install.
How can I reformat the drive for Vista, which is the only fix I can think of? DELL Support was useless! Drive is SATA.
Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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by oh smeg

If there is a recovery Partition on the HDD you don't want to wipe the Drive as this will disappear. So you need to access a Windows Boot Disc like that ones made to start Windows 98.

You can then use the FDISK Command to delete the Partition with the aborted install of Vista on and leave it blank and then just insert the Recovery Disc into the Dell and reinstall the OS.

If you don't have a recovery Partition on the HDD you can use something like Boot & Nuke to Blow away the contents of the HDD and have what looks like a Brand New Blank Drive to install to.

http://tinyurl.com/4rfur

If you need a Boot Disc you can get one from here

http://tinyurl.com/63oz

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