Karen Rosenstiel
krosenstiel at comcast.net
Sun Jul 13 22:12:32 CDT 2008
Thanks for your suggestion. It reminded me that I have a recent version of Norton Utilities. I used the recovery disk to wipe the partition. I just repartitioned and am formatting right now. Brute force it is! Regards, Karen Rosenstiel Seattle WA USA -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Collins Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:33 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [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. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [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 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.10/1550 - Release Date: 7/13/2008 5:58 PM -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com This email and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information and are intended for the named addressee only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Any confidentiality, privilege or copyright is not waived or lost because this e-mail has been sent to you in error. It is your responsibility to check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. No warranty is made that this material is free from computer virus or any other defect or error. Any loss/damage incurred by using this material is not the sender's responsibility. The sender's entire liability will be limited to resupplying the material. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.10/1550 - Release Date: 7/13/2008 5:58 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.10/1550 - Release Date: 7/13/2008 5:58 PM