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I have been reading posts about not being able to reformat a hard drive with Vista and if that is the case why not just put in a new hard drive and load XP into it?
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∙ 14y ago
There is no such thing as not being able, in most cases people have no idea what they are talking about. Vista uses a special "protection". As result if you want to install xp on the vista partition it will not allow you do so. There are some steps which must be taken if you want to format vista partitions.
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yes
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