Hi, I just bought a new desktop cpu that came loaded with Vista. I tried
loading XP Professional (clean install) as soon as I plugged the new cpu in.
However, it own't install. It sets up a partition, and loads some files,
then it simply reboots, and has you repeat the setup all over. Someone in
our IT dept says I must buy a new hard drive because this one was set up for
64 bit? I'm not savvy enough to understand that, but it doesn't seem right
to get rid of a brand new hard drive ... help!?!?
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jusfishn

You need to find a newsgroup with the name "windows" in it.

This group is for "DotNet" developers (programmers) who use the DotNet
Framework.



"jusfishn" <mda@xxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in message
news:4576D2A8-93E4-439A-B5BB-C9E78824AC47@xxxxxx

> Hi, I just bought a new desktop cpu that came loaded with Vista. I tried
> loading XP Professional (clean install) as soon as I plugged the new cpu
> in.
> However, it own't install. It sets up a partition, and loads some files,
> then it simply reboots, and has you repeat the setup all over. Someone in
> our IT dept says I must buy a new hard drive because this one was set up
> for
> 64 bit? I'm not savvy enough to understand that, but it doesn't seem
> right
> to get rid of a brand new hard drive ... help!?!?
> --
> jusfishn

Ok, thanks for the suggestion!
--
jusfishn


"sloan" wrote:

> You need to find a newsgroup with the name "windows" in it.
>
> This group is for "DotNet" developers (programmers) who use the DotNet
> Framework.
>
>
>
> "jusfishn" <mda@xxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in message
> news:4576D2A8-93E4-439A-B5BB-C9E78824AC47@xxxxxx

> > Hi, I just bought a new desktop cpu that came loaded with Vista. I tried
> > loading XP Professional (clean install) as soon as I plugged the new cpu
> > in.
> > However, it own't install. It sets up a partition, and loads some files,
> > then it simply reboots, and has you repeat the setup all over. Someone in
> > our IT dept says I must buy a new hard drive because this one was set up
> > for
> > 64 bit? I'm not savvy enough to understand that, but it doesn't seem
> > right
> > to get rid of a brand new hard drive ... help!?!?
> > --
> > jusfishn

>
>
>

Do it like Sloan said.

However, the change that you have to buy a new disk is almost zero.

Cor

"jusfishn" <mda@xxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in message
news:4576D2A8-93E4-439A-B5BB-C9E78824AC47@xxxxxx

> Hi, I just bought a new desktop cpu that came loaded with Vista. I tried
> loading XP Professional (clean install) as soon as I plugged the new cpu
> in.
> However, it own't install. It sets up a partition, and loads some files,
> then it simply reboots, and has you repeat the setup all over. Someone in
> our IT dept says I must buy a new hard drive because this one was set up
> for
> 64 bit? I'm not savvy enough to understand that, but it doesn't seem
> right
> to get rid of a brand new hard drive ... help!?!?
> --
> jusfishn