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Hey Folks,

I installed windows vista home upgrade and want to go back to the XP Pro that I was using before. I tried to reinstall XP Pro, but when I insterrt the disk, the option to reinstall XP Pro is greyed out...any idea how I can reinstall XP Pro?

Thanks in advance!

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according to someone in my IT class, when you upgrade to vista it wipes out your XP key, so it's not valid... meaning you can't re-install it :-\

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Hey Folks,

I installed windows vista home upgrade and want to go back to the XP Pro that I was using before. I tried to reinstall XP Pro, but when I insterrt the disk, the option to reinstall XP Pro is greyed out...any idea how I can reinstall XP Pro?

Thanks in advance!

hi ,i would go to my motherboard manufacturers site and get hard drive utility program ,[maxtors is called maxblast it will work with segate also..]most have them ,boot computer with it and format the drive ,then reload winxp

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