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silversauder · 12-12-2007, 12:59 PM

hello, i have recently purchased a new hard drive, and wanted to install XP (had vista before old hard drive broke) i had a copy of XP laying around so i decided to pop it in, the hard drive then did its usual partition activities, but when it was done, i got to the point in the XP set up where i needed the serial key for XP.

i then realized i dont have a key for XP, so i need either a way to get a key for free some how, or how to wipe my hard drive while in the XP setup (couldnt figure out how)
so i can then load my vista again

thanks

12-12-2007, 12:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
silversauder Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 7 OS: XP	Need way to wipe harddrive in mid-xp setup hello, i have recently purchased a new hard drive, and wanted to install XP (had vista before old hard drive broke) i had a copy of XP laying around so i decided to pop it in, the hard drive then did its usual partition activities, but when it was done, i got to the point in the XP set up where i needed the serial key for XP. i then realized i dont have a key for XP, so i need either a way to get a key for free some how, or how to wipe my hard drive while in the XP setup (couldnt figure out how) so i can then load my vista again thanks