How To Xp Format

Formatting would be done with your an XP disc, prior to loading XP, HOWEVER AS VISTA AND WINDOWS 7 USE DIFFERENT BOOTLOADERS, IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS, YOU CAN REMOVE YOUR HARD DRIVE, AND PUT IT IN A USB CADDY, AND FORMAT IT THROUGH ANOTHER COMPUTER/LAPTOP, BY USING WINDOWS DISC MANAGEMENT UTILITY (START, RIGHT CLICK COMPUTER, CLICK MANAGE , CLICK DISC MANAGEMENT, AND CLICK ON THIS HARD DRIVE AND CHODSE FORMAT )

http://g1w0134.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=130&prodSeriesId=5186817&prodTypeId=321957&objectID=c01905175

FIRST BE WARNED THAT THESE CAN BE TRICKY IN GETTING THE CORRECT DRIVERS - BUT IT CAN BE DONE WITH MOST. You have probably discovered that HP don't offer any.

Basically you first need to get drivers ready to do this, and where I have found it most needed are for chipset, video, and wireless drivers.

This site has XP drivers- avoid downloading anything else, and scroll down the left side to the List of Compaq Presario CQ43-400LA Drivers for Windows XP

and start downloading and saving each one to a folder of their own before opening any of them.

http://ww1.driverstag.com

 

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