So I have a Dell Vostro 1500 that came with vista home basic (which is the worst of the worst). I tried running dban, but it would not complete the full nuke of my HD. It would just load the kernel and then crap out. I also tried deleting the partition of vista and just putting a fresh copy of xp on it, however; I keep getting a message saying that it cant find a HD to write to... wth? I think this is due to a boot file or something else that dell or vista has put on the laptop that is not allowing me to install XP. Please help :eek: