(BusaCruise @ Sep. 06 2007,04:50) after 6 days of research and trial and error.
sounds like a little more error than trial...
so...you're testimony is that you 'upgraded' to XP....and then somehow it "base coded" you HDD so that you could not format it?
I ask because you said you tried to "get back" to the XP OS.
Someone wanna tell me what "base coding" a HDD is? .... I have been in the industry for just over 10 years....and I have never heard of that.
A HDD doesn't care what you write to it....it only cares about the interface.
As long as you have the drivers and firmware to interface with it...you should be golden.
Did you try any 3rd party utilities?
PM8
Ghost
nLite for a Slipstream install?
HDD maker's utility tools?
etc.....?
BTW....Gateway is now shipping PCs whose PCB components are supposedly "not compatible with XP" ....so don't buy one and expect to be able to "rollback" to XP.
One of my local customers was issued a couple from their corporate office.....eewww!
September is "the last" month to buy XP ....they are supposed to pull it from the shelves at the end of the month....we'll see.[/Quote]
Lol, trial and error were the same.
And what I meant by base code, the format that Vista uses messes with xp installation. It just makes things difficult. And I found that all I had to do was disable SATA in the BIOS, and my vista partition and unallocated hardrive space finally showed up :-)
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That said...
WOW BIOSHOCK IS EVEN BETTER!!!! no glitches no choppy motion. AHH It feels good to be back on XP