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Format vista system drive

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17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

You can use software like Partion Magic or Windows Xp Installation CD; boot up in Recovery mode, try to repair MBR with the command fdisk /mbr after that restart the system and using the Xp disk in Recovery mode make partions for Xp.

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