Early Adopter Woe’s or Why Tinkering With PC’s Causes Grey Hair

Well I decided last night to rid myself of Vista and have gone about it in totally the wrong way.  After taking a copy of my files I just tried to install XP on top of Vista.  It didn’t work, at all in fact after reinstalling XP and rebooting to load the rest of the install process I get a really lovely screen of coloured pixels on the screen.

So I though to myself I know I should reinstall it on the second drive and just live with it on an E drive.  Same lovely coloured pixels, I even tried to repair the MBR and still no joy.  I’m hoping that if unplug one of the drive and do a complete (full) reformat it might work.  If it doesn’t, I have no idea as to what I will do and not have a working PC at home is causing me to have internet withdrawal.  Damn you Vista and also damn myself for being heavy handed in the whole approach and not doing a little research before hand.