A friend installed W7 RC on my son's computer and it is now suddenly shutting down. I read some posts online that point to Windows 7 being sensitive to Video card heat so whenever he watches a movie on his computer his video card heats up and windows shuts down.
He never had that problem with XP so I am trying to reformat the HD to install XP again.
I put the XP cd in the drive, reboot from cd, it starts the install process by copying files, etc then when it gets to the point where I should select the drive to install XP I select C but then C is shown as being only 100MB. That drive is actually 300GB.
It won't allow me to install XP as it needs at least 1GB of space.
I am afraid of deleting that drive and causing the installation to format the second drive which has the backup of all the stuff I copied from C.
This Windows 7 biz is way too messed up.
Please help me get rid of it.
Thank you,
FayeC
He never had that problem with XP so I am trying to reformat the HD to install XP again.
I put the XP cd in the drive, reboot from cd, it starts the install process by copying files, etc then when it gets to the point where I should select the drive to install XP I select C but then C is shown as being only 100MB. That drive is actually 300GB.
It won't allow me to install XP as it needs at least 1GB of space.
I am afraid of deleting that drive and causing the installation to format the second drive which has the backup of all the stuff I copied from C.
This Windows 7 biz is way too messed up.
Please help me get rid of it.
Thank you,
FayeC