Have both XP and Windows 7 installed on computer BUT..

I want to take out windows 7. I really like it, but I am finding more and more conflictions with the programs and sites I use each day. Example: Windows 7 does not support Microsoft Office Live where my website is, or World of Warcraft (video card problem). Both work fine on XP. So i decided to revert back. Problem is when I boot up I have three options. "OLDER VERSION OF WINDOWS", "WINDOWS7" AND "SYSTEM RESTORE". Now system restore and older version of windows brings me to the same page and asks me for an admin password. A password that was never set up. We never put a password on this computer. I just tried clicking enter to bypass the nonexsistant password but that didnt work. After 3 attempts it boots me.
How do I roll back??
I also have the Pavilion Slimline by HP which doesnt require a disk and key to reformat the computer, its built in.
But I can't even access that. Any help appreciated.
thanks
-Jaime

Are you using Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate/Enterprise? You can use Windows XP Mode. :)

EDIT: Or, you can buy/download a Windows disk from Microsoft (or other sources...) and use that.

I am using Windows Ultimate. I see no sense in buying a copy of windows when I already have it on my computer. It is there, I just cannot get to it for whatever reason. It is asking me for an admin password that doesn't exsist otherwise I would be able to. A couple other people I spoke with said they have the same problem. There must be a way to get around it.
Come on techies..lol. Funny enough, I am an IT major in college, but I just don't know Win7 enough to get through this myself.
I will try that dual boot. Thanks

missdeadlocks said:

I am using Windows Ultimate. I see no sense in buying a copy of windows when I already have it on my computer. It is there, I just cannot get to it for whatever reason. It is asking me for an admin password that doesn't exsist otherwise I would be able to. A couple other people I spoke with said they have the same problem. There must be a way to get around it.
Come on techies..lol. Funny enough, I am an IT major in college, but I just don't know Win7 enough to get through this myself.
I will try that dual boot. Thanks

Let me see if I get this right.

You had dual boot xp and win7.
You decided you only want xp

You deleted or formatted the win7 partition?

missdeadlocks said:

I am using Windows Ultimate. I see no sense in buying a copy of windows when I already have it on my computer. It is there, I just cannot get to it for whatever reason. It is asking me for an admin password that doesn't exsist otherwise I would be able to. A couple other people I spoke with said they have the same problem. There must be a way to get around it.
Come on techies..lol. Funny enough, I am an IT major in college, but I just don't know Win7 enough to get through this myself.
I will try that dual boot. Thanks

Since you want to remove win 7 why dont you just boot into XP (older version) and delete the win 7 partition? If xp isnt working and you have a xp disk you can boot from it and format the whole drive. since we have no way of knowing for sure that its your system I doubt that someone is going to give you an admin password especially since we dont know what it would be

Let us know if you need help with the xp or anything else

Ken

Ah, okay My husband just shed "some" light on the situation. Alright, Well, like I said before we have Windows XP built into our computer. Before, if we wanted to reformat, it was an option from boot up by hitting F8 upon start up that let us reformat right from there. Then my husband installed, or upgraded rather, to Windows 7 ultimate via microsoft website. He did NOT do a duel install, he did not shrink XP and partition the drive. This I am all finding out today. So, now that we want to jump back to XP, the F8 prompts we had before are no longer there because win7 changed everything. So we need to figure out a way to reformat using the built in XP on my computer through all this.
Any ideas..there must be a way.

I have tried admin. I even added a password to my account and it doesnt work. I realized I can't get into XP because Windows 7 overrided it when my husband upgraded. Frusterating because I would not have overrided XP, i would have partitioned the drive and had both. But since it happened and I can't change that. I have to tap into the computers built in reformat which I can't find. It's located somewhere on the PC but I dont know where. Usually we found it by hitting F8 upon start up, since we upgraded its not there. However, our old files are still on the computer from XP. It carried over..i have to find out where in the pc that is.