Re: Need a Laptop with Windows XP or 200


"Anne Vasquez" <ahvasquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Whoa; you can't take Vista off and replace it with XP? There goes my plan
for buying an inexpensive laptop and wiping the HD to put XP Pro on it!

Anne



I don't know who the geek squad is, but you can definitely format a HD and
then install any OS you want.

Vista may be many things, but it is not impervious to "format c:" :)

A formatted HD is a formatted HD.

ed


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