stellablue19
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I am going to sell my old laptop on ebay and am trying to make sure it's working perfectly just as if it were brand new. Problem is, I have upgraded it from XP Home to Vista Home Basic, and am having trouble getting it back to its original XP state.
What I am trying to do is wipe out the OS altogether/reformat the hard drive so that I can start fresh and install from the XP discs that were shipped with the computer when I purchased it. Can anybody walk me through step-by-step on how to do this?
I have downloaded KillDisc, but for some reason can't write the program to a bootable CD from either of my machines - I get an unknown error. I don't know how to make Vista boot from a CD, anyway, so even if I were able to copy that to a CD I would have been stuck...
The machine is a Toshiba Satellite Pro M15-S405.
Any advice would be much appreciated! I really want to do this myself because it seems like something that should be pretty simple - It just seems like the challenge is in getting rid of Vista! :-( (Oh, and I no longer have the windows.old file on the computer since I have used a shredding utility to get rid of personal data - that might be contributing to the problem of downgrading to XP...)
Thanks!
Thanks!!
What I am trying to do is wipe out the OS altogether/reformat the hard drive so that I can start fresh and install from the XP discs that were shipped with the computer when I purchased it. Can anybody walk me through step-by-step on how to do this?
I have downloaded KillDisc, but for some reason can't write the program to a bootable CD from either of my machines - I get an unknown error. I don't know how to make Vista boot from a CD, anyway, so even if I were able to copy that to a CD I would have been stuck...
The machine is a Toshiba Satellite Pro M15-S405.
Any advice would be much appreciated! I really want to do this myself because it seems like something that should be pretty simple - It just seems like the challenge is in getting rid of Vista! :-( (Oh, and I no longer have the windows.old file on the computer since I have used a shredding utility to get rid of personal data - that might be contributing to the problem of downgrading to XP...)
Thanks!
Thanks!!