please recommend...

floodlight · 07-05-2011, 05:51

a good inexpensive pc repair service who will be able to clean a partioned hard drive and replace windows XP pro with XP home ( i have the o.s. disk). For some reason I am unable to uninstall XP pro as it asks me for administrator rights p/w which I am unable again for some reason unable to provide

would someone please point me in the direction of someone who may be able to help

thanks

phil8715 · 09-05-2011, 21:07

Can you not right click and select run as administrator? Have you got a XP Home cd or is it Windows XP Pro?

entwisi · 09-05-2011, 21:27

If you boot the XP Home disk you should get an option in advanced mode to repartition the drive, just delete all existing partitions ( ALL DATA WILL BE LOST!!!!) and then let it create new ones

Neil · 09-05-2011, 23:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by phil8715

Can you not right click and select run as administrator? Have you got a XP Home cd or is it Windows XP Pro?

Not in XP you can't, Its a Windows 7 thing, maybe Vista but I never used it because its pooh.

floodlight · 10-05-2011, 04:50

Its XP pro which I believe ( I know) has an facility for only allowing administrators to make changes...which for some reason it is not letting me do anything \i tried to reinstall from safe mode and still.....

dont really feel confident enough to try to many options but having made enquiries theres a place in Rishton will do the job for £40 (if I have programme reg no and drive discs for motherboard) which seems fair enough

but thanks for your comments and help

Neil · 10-05-2011, 07:55

You dont install from safe mode, you have to boot the PC from the install CD.