From: MrPounder@RationalThought.com   
      
   "Charlie+"  wrote in message   
   news:kmn7aa572mamerbehrevpu3a9n7jk58n92@4ax.com...   
   > On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:56:37 -0000, "Mr Pounder"   
   >  wrote as underneath :   
   >   
   >>   
   >>"Charlie+"  wrote in message   
   >>news:7cn4aat13313jv4gjc9h91is44ttobqtok@4ax.com...   
   >>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:34:10 -0000, "Mr Pounder"   
   >>>  wrote as underneath :   
   >>>   
   >>>>A mate who is worse with computers than I am has given me a Compaq   
   >>>>Presario   
   >>>>CQ 61 lap top to try and sort out. It came with W7.   
   >>>>He totally screwed it up a while ago and a "mate" put a very dodgy copy   
   >>>>of   
   >>>>Vista Basic on it for him!!!!!!!   
   >>>>Then he screwed it up yet again. I've cleaned it up - 20 viruses and   
   >>>>over   
   >>>>600 items of malware. Its now much faster.   
   >>>>He knows that I have a genuine copy of XP Pro and asked me to put it on.   
   >>>>The   
   >>>>"install XP" button is grayed out so I can't. Anybody?   
   >>>>I have a dodgy copy of W7 and the Windows loader, the laptop won't do a   
   >>>>thing with the disk.   
   >>>>I'll probably leave it on Vista, but I really would like to know why the   
   >>>>XP   
   >>>>and the Windows 7 disk don't work.   
   >>>>Yes, I know that I'm being a bad boy with the W7 disk :-)   
   >>>>Thanks.   
   >>>>   
   >>> Do you know enough to be doing this?   
   >>> Have you done a complete disk wipe, re-partition and only then XP   
   >>> install?  Your going to need the drivers for that laptop to do the job   
   >>> properly after the initial install. MS will still update the   
   >>> installation with all the hundreds of updates but you have to know which   
   >>> updates to exclude etc. otherwise you will have trouble. C+   
   >>   
   >>The install XP button is grayed out on the disk. Is there another way of   
   >>formatting without this button?   
   >>I have the drivers on a stick, I have fallen for that one in the past.   
   >>I've managed this before.   
   >>As for the updates, yes, I've a good idea what to install and what not to   
   >>install.   
   >>Thanks for the reply.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Answer to my question above =No!   
   > Which type of XP installation CD have you got? Retail, Upgrade, OEM ?   
   > Which level of SP is included on the CDROM ? 1,2, or perhaps 3 if it is   
   > a slipstreamed disk.  Is it a Volume Licence disk or a single licence   
   > disk? Im sorry I cant talk you right through all this it would take   
   > forever, go to Google. But to answer your question . Yes you can just   
   > start from zero with a blank HDD even with an upgrade installation CDROM   
   > there are workarounds - Google!  You may find that a lot of previously   
   > available XP info is gradually getting wiped from websites.   
      
   Thanks.   
      
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