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I need advice whether or not to do a fresh install of windows
My parents have a computer with w7 ult. 64 bit that my friend had installed and The only issue that happens is it will occasionally shut down randomly and come up with an error message saying it experienced a BSOD. My father has been calling me lately saying that it's doing it more frequently and it's really annoying, and I can say that my Dell laptop has done it occasionally in the past on occasion. Now I have discovered i can get a copy of XP pro 64bit through my school for free which I might install on it if i cant get the random "BSOD's" to stop. Ill get the error code next time it happens to post here, but in the mean time I was wondering if there would be an easy transition in the installation process from windows 7 to windows xp. The machine has a pentium e6500, 4gigs of ddr2, radeon hd 4850 and two independent drives, and I would imagine it would be pretty quick because XP is older. as far as installing is concerned, I figure i would just have to boot to the disc or flash drive and tell it to install on the C drive, but would it create a windows.old folder with all of the stuff? or is there an option to do a repair install with a windows 7 disc?
Last edited by Zach1928; 05 Dec 2012 at 22:24.