REINSTALLING WINDOWS XP

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I have two hards drives (1) 10 GB and (2) 220 GB partitioned (110 GB each).
I had XP installed on hard drive (2) partition one. I recently installed
vista on drive (2) partition two and all worked fine (dual boot). I now want
to reinstall xp on the same drive and same partition because I have to format
it to eliminate some nasty viruses. I changed BIOS to boot from CD but
somehow when I try to reinstall only drive (1) appears as an option. Any
solutions pls?
 
Have you tried disconnecting drive 1 and then installing.

JS

"Tanti" <Tanti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AF32D642-333E-4086-B1B9-7739C060EBB2@microsoft.com...
>I have two hards drives (1) 10 GB and (2) 220 GB partitioned (110 GB each).
> I had XP installed on hard drive (2) partition one. I recently installed
> vista on drive (2) partition two and all worked fine (dual boot). I now
> want
> to reinstall xp on the same drive and same partition because I have to
> format
> it to eliminate some nasty viruses. I changed BIOS to boot from CD but
> somehow when I try to reinstall only drive (1) appears as an option. Any
> solutions pls?
>
 
is it sata? you might have to do the F6 on start up and load the sata
drivers


"JS" <@> wrote in message news:uxLwwsjyHHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Have you tried disconnecting drive 1 and then installing.
>
> JS
>
> "Tanti" <Tanti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AF32D642-333E-4086-B1B9-7739C060EBB2@microsoft.com...
>>I have two hards drives (1) 10 GB and (2) 220 GB partitioned (110 GB
>>each).
>> I had XP installed on hard drive (2) partition one. I recently installed
>> vista on drive (2) partition two and all worked fine (dual boot). I now
>> want
>> to reinstall xp on the same drive and same partition because I have to
>> format
>> it to eliminate some nasty viruses. I changed BIOS to boot from CD but
>> somehow when I try to reinstall only drive (1) appears as an option. Any
>> solutions pls?
>>
>
>
 
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