[AccessD] Downgrading Vista

Hi Karen,

I took a brute force approach in the end which was most effective - although it took a few days to get everything back to how I wanted from backup drive and redown loading all the 3rd party apps from the net etc...

http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive-erase-hard-drive.php

and then do a clean install of XP Pro off the boot disk.
Although the white canyon product costs (About USD$29) I have used it a few times on different systems without bother and feel it was good value for money.

Or for all the available products have a look here
http://www.whitecanyon.com/identity-theft-software.php
There might be one that suits your needs better.

Hopefully someone has a simple and less drastic solution, although a clean install is always a nice thing.

regards
Darryl.


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Karen
Sent: Monday, 14 July 2008 12:09 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Downgrading Vista



I am fed up with Vista Ultimate on my laptop. I want to downgrade to XP Pro
and I have 2 bootable CDs with it. However, my damn laptop won't let either
one boot. It starts and then I get the Blue Screen of Death with the
following (useless) message:

STOP: 0x0000007E
(0xC0000005, 0xF748E0BF, 0xF78DA208, 0xF78D9F08)

Pci.sys - Address F748E0BF base at F7487000, Datestamp 3b7d855c

How do I format the damn hard drive with Vista?

TIA

Regards,

Karen Rosenstiel
Seattle WA USA

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