vista to xp on hp

[chuckcarolb]

Can't install XP on a new HP desktop with Vista. Can't find driver for
HD to install when clicking F6. Talked to HP and they said none
available and will never be available. Called MB company, Assus and
they said MB made for HP and can't do anything to help. Have tried an
Intel driver with no luck.

How can I find drivers to work with this? The exact path would be
great.

Thanks,
WICCX

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Issues with Downgrading HP Pavilion PCs to Windows XP and Restoring Windows Vista:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...s&lc=en&dlc=en&product=3439686&dlc=en&lang=en

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Can't install XP on a new HP desktop with Vista. Can't find driver for
HD to install when clicking F6. Talked to HP and they said none
available and will never be available. Called MB company, Assus and
they said MB made for HP and can't do anything to help. Have tried an
Intel driver with no luck.

How can I find drivers to work with this? The exact path would be
great.

Thanks,
WICCX

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Can't install XP on a new HP desktop with Vista. Can't find driver
for HD to install when clicking F6. Talked to HP and they said none
available and will never be available. Called MB company, Assus and
they said MB made for HP and can't do anything to help. Have tried
an Intel driver with no luck.

How can I find drivers to work with this? The exact path would be
great.

You've followed all the proper steps.

You may be unable to make Windows XP work. It was a machine designed for
Windows Vista. That is a choice the manufacturer of said system has made
and one you accepted when you purchased the machine.

You could run a virtual PC inside of Vista and use Windows XP in that
manner.

 

[Ed Covney]

How can I find drivers to work with this? The exact path would be

great.

Take it back if you were led to believe XP could work on it.
It can't.

Next time, buy it with XP and later you'll be able to upgrade.

Ed

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

If you have a retail copy of XP then follow Shenan's suggestion and run XP
in a virtual machine on your Vista desktop. Virtual PC 2007 is free from
MS, but use the virtualization solution of your choice. If you are using
Vista Home Basic or Premium, you will see an advisory message when you
install VPC to the effect that the host operating system is not supported.
The message is advisory only and does not mean that VPC does not run, just
that telephone and email help from MS for VPC will not be available.

There is little point in continuing to look for XP drivers for your
computer. HP would have to do them and they have not.

 

[Karl Snooks]

Chuckcarolb,
If HP desktop is truly new, not a refurbished model, where HP never supplied
the desktop with XP, then you just may be out of luck.

I have a refurbished HP which was supplied with Vista but when originally
released was supplied with XP. Consequently, after much hin und her got the
XP drivers from HP and have a fine running laptop.

Although I've not dealt with Asus lately, I was always impressed by the
quality of their support and documentation. I'm a great fan of Asus
motherboards.

karl snooks

| Can't install XP on a new HP desktop with Vista. Can't find driver for
| HD to install when clicking F6. Talked to HP and they said none
| available and will never be available. Called MB company, Assus and
| they said MB made for HP and can't do anything to help. Have tried an
| Intel driver with no luck.
|
| How can I find drivers to work with this? The exact path would be
| great.
|
| Thanks,
| WICCX

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Can't install XP on a new HP desktop with Vista. Can't find driver for
HD to install when clicking F6. Talked to HP and they said none
available and will never be available. Called MB company, Assus and
they said MB made for HP and can't do anything to help. Have tried an
Intel driver with no luck.

How can I find drivers to work with this? The exact path would be
great.

As you've already been repeatedly told, by the *ONLY* people who could
provide such a driver, should they choose, you don't. Period.


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[HeyBub]

Take it back if you were led to believe XP could work on it.
It can't.

Next time, buy it with XP and later you'll be able to upgrade.

Maybe not. There are millions of machines that work with XP but cannot be
made to work with Vista.

 

[Pete Stavrakoglou]

Can't install XP on a new HP desktop with Vista. Can't find driver for
HD to install when clicking F6. Talked to HP and they said none
available and will never be available. Called MB company, Assus and
they said MB made for HP and can't do anything to help. Have tried an
Intel driver with no luck.

How can I find drivers to work with this? The exact path would be
great.

Thanks,
WICCX

When you boot into the BIOS, you can change the HD controller from SATA to
IDE. Even though you have a SATA hard drive in your system, it will work
with no need to load drivers by pressing F6. I "downgraded" an HP Pavilion
desktop to XP from Vista and got this info from an HP tech. It worked.
Once I made the BIOS change, the XP install "saw" the drive and installed.

 

[R. McCarty]

The default operating mode for SATA controllers on new PCs is
AHCI ( Advanced Host Configuration Interface ). Vista has native
support for ACHI, XP does not. Many times the toggled alternate
to ACHI in BIOS setup will appear as either as IDE or legacy.

 

[R. McCarty]

Excuse me, it's "Controller" not Configuration in AHCI.

 

[Pete Stavrakoglou]

The default operating mode for SATA controllers on new PCs is
AHCI ( Advanced Host Configuration Interface ). Vista has native
support for ACHI, XP does not. Many times the toggled alternate
to ACHI in BIOS setup will appear as either as IDE or legacy.

On my HP, the default setting out-of-the-box was "RAID". When I was going
back-and-forth between Vista and XP (each on its own hard drive) I
mistakenly set the BIOS to ACHI when I wanted to boot to the Vista drive and
it wouldn't work. It has to be set to raid. I'm not used to proprietary
systems, maybe it's unique to HP, I don't know.

 

[throwitout]

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Can't install XP on a new HP desktop with Vista. Can't find driver for
HD to install when clicking F6. Talked to HP and they said none
available and will never be available. Called MB company, Assus and
they said MB made for HP and can't do anything to help. Have tried an
Intel driver with no luck.

How can I find drivers to work with this? The exact path would be
great.

The exact path is impossible when not even the model number of the PC
is given.

Contrary to the dire warnings I downgraded my HP notebook PC without
much of a problem. While HP's support site does not list XP drivers
for my exact model of computer, they sold previous models of the same
series as XP units. It was simply a matter of looking up one of those
models and downloading all the drivers. One of the potential issues
for me was the Graphics card (NVidia 7200) since NVidia does not
supply generic drivers for their notebook graphics card, I had to get
one from HP, which was simply a matter of searching their support site
for that model.

For the hard drive drivers they are typically in the chipset drivers.
I can't remember if I used the HP driver bundle or straight from
NVidia, but I extracted the driver package and in it were the SATA
drivers. I then used nlite to slipstream them into an install CD
(along with SP2. SP1 or greater is required for drives larger than
137GB). My notebook does not have a BIOS option to enable IDE
compatibility mode.

To use hard drive drivers during installation, they must either be
slip streamed into the CD or put on a floppy drive. They can not be
read off of a non-slipstreamed CD, flash drive or anything other then
a floppy or slipstreamed CD. You can use a USB floppy if you want.