Vista back to XP

[Guest]

I purchased a laptop with Vista pre-installed. It has been a very
frustrating process trying to learn Vista but I have stuck with it for the
moment. My problem is that other hardware manufacturers have not updated
drivers for older hardware but there were drivers for XP. Is it possible for
me to go back to XP without having to purchase a brand new copy of XP.
Only sensible answers please, I have read some of the bitching that is going
on.

 

[Guest]

You can't roll back pre-installed vista, only with upgrades can you do that.
Some manufacturers, like Dell, are offering XP disks if you are not happy
with Vista, apparently.

The prob with that is, some of the new motherboards do not have XP Drivers
written for them; so you can't go back successfully to XP.

Why not stick with Vista; eventually drivers will become available for the
newer hardware.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

If there is a way, it will have to come from your laptop manufacture so
contact them and ask this question.

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[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

I would not recommend going back to the old Windows XP
operating system. Your new laptop was likely certified for
Windows Vista and returning to Windows XP would entail
completely reformatting your hard drive and then installing
a "full version" of Windows XP. And your laptop manufacturer
may not offer Windows XP drivers for the laptop's internal
hardware so that it would be fully functional with Windows XP.


I purchased a laptop with Vista pre-installed. It has been a very
frustrating process trying to learn Vista but I have stuck with it for the
moment. My problem is that other hardware manufacturers have not updated
drivers for older hardware but there were drivers for XP. Is it possible for
me to go back to XP without having to purchase a brand new copy of XP.
Only sensible answers please, I have read some of the bitching that is going
on.

 

[Tiberius]

I would strongly recommend going back to XP, the best Windows operating
system.
Your new laptop may be also certified for
Windows XP and continuing to useWindows Vista would entail
completely frustrating experience. Your laptop manufacturer
may offer Windows XP drivers for the laptop's internal
hardware so that it would be fully functional with Windows XP.

Use the Best, use XP.

 

[Guest]

but what should i do if i want to have both vista nad xp? can someone who
really did install xp on notebook with pre-installed vista

 

[Bigguy]

First - visit laptop manufacturer's website and download ALL necessary
XP drivers and Utils for your laptop.
Copy them to a CD or USB drive.

Next - boot laptop off XP CD and fully reformat/partition laptop hard drive.

(There may be a Vista 'restore' partition on your laptop's hard drive -
you can erase this)

Install XP

Add drivers and Utils where required

Fully update XP on-line

Enjoy


There may be a Vista 'restore' partition on your laptop's hard drive -
you can erase this...


Guy

 

[Guest]

your answere is almost complete, u've said that all drivers were required
but after win xp installation? or while ;p and if its a problem if my hard
drive uses sata connection ;/ ? my desktop pc needed a proper driver with the
driver

oh, and the most important, have u done this? or u only suppose?

 

[will_456]

When you go to your motherboard website, download the Sata driver for it.
(Usually can be found in a folder on your motherboard driver CD as well)

If you have a floppy drive copy it to that. If not copy the files to CD.
When you first run XP setup you will see at the bottom to press F6 to
install third party drivers etc. Hit F6. It will appear that nothing happens
but later in the install process you will be asked to insert your disk. If
you've got the right driver it installation should proceed OK. from there.

I'm not sure whether you can do this on Cd or USB, never tried it. I think
you'll need two CD drives as one will be occupied by your setup disk at the
time the files are required, but maybe that part of the setup runs in memory
and you can swap disks.