Recent content by taweisse

I put the installation disk in, and when I turned the computer on, it did boot from it. However, after windows xp setup loads all the files, it gives me a blue error screen. I tried many times, same result. I tried to install Ubuntu Linux and it worked fine. I have a new HP laptop, could...

Okay, I managed to make a partition using Gparted. I still would like to keep 7, in case I ever want to go back to it, ill still have it on my computer. I lowered the partition with 7 on it to 90 GB, and left 200 for XP. The new partition is a blank disk formatted with NTFS. I need to be...

For the active disk creator- why do i have to create a disk for reformatting? I have already backed my files so shouldn't I just be able to go ahead and format. Or does the disk format for you after restart...

I have Windows 7 on two computers. On one of the computers i want to downgrade from 7 to XP. I have the XP installation disk, but whenever I put the disk in to attempt to boot from it during startup, it bypasses it and boots normally. I checked the BIOS and disk is set to boot before the HD...

Thanks it worked. I wasnt even aware that show icons was an option

I have recently purchased a new laptop loaded with 7. About 2 months into using it, my desktop disapeard. I thought it might be windows explorer not coming on at startup, but the taskbar is still there! All of my files are still on my drive in My Computer, just not visually on the desktop...