I have a inspiron 160m and it came pre-installed with xp home and now i would like to install xp pro but when i boot from cd it starts checking the hardware and gives me the blue screen of death just before its about to check for preveous versions installed.
But the laptop will happily install xp home again, i have tried lots of different cd's
for the past couple of months, my computer has slowed down quite a bit. its like twice as slow as when i first got it. i have no idea what may have cause this problem. if you have any idea whats wrong with it, just let me know.
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