Recent content by red913

i ran that test, but it disappears before I see the results.

previous partition was deleted You are correct, cd. Vista version, not XP. As I do not have any remnants of XP remaining. Any other ideas? Thanks for all the help so far. You guys are really awesome!

Well i'm perfectly happy using just Win. 7. No need to put XP back on here. Backing up and reinstalling at this point should be fairly simple and straightforward. Yes, I was locked out of XP due to no activation. Someone gave me a cd and told me it was legit...but then again it was a copied cd...

I was essentially locked out of Windows XP as it required me to activate it and it I wasn't able to I heard about Win 7 and decided to download and install it Used gparted to shrink my only partition and leave unallocated free space to then create a new partition for which Win 7 would be...

Not really a solution here. Delete everything and start from scratch...I don't think so. I want to fix the problem, not start over again.

Just tried it and tried to rewrite the bootloader and it didn't work. Is there a certain option I'm supposed to be using in it?

I had Xp on one hard drive. Used Gparted to make a partition. Left the XP partition active and installed 7 on the second partition. I could then only get XP to load. If I booted with the 7 install cd, then it would load. So I tried the repair utility on its cd and that did nothing. I eventually...