Vista to XP

[Guest]

Can I "upgrade" from vista to winXP? I know it sounds backwards, but is it
possible without reformatting the harddrive and doing a fresh, full XP
install?

 

[Guest]

No, MS does not provide that "upgrade" path.

 

[Guest]

nope the term is downgrade. but this would best answered via the vista
newsgroup

 

[Rock]

Can I "upgrade" from vista to winXP? I know it sounds backwards, but is it
possible without reformatting the harddrive and doing a fresh, full XP
install?

No such thing. That is a downgrade, and to do that you clean install XP.

 

[jim]

theoretically a downgrade...
in reality an upgrade....

vista is a bad sad puppy

 

[Guest]

Thanks...
That confirms both my suspicions and my opinion.

 

[Rock]

theoretically a downgrade...
in reality an upgrade....

vista is a bad sad puppy

I disagree. I was in the TechBeta, and have been running the RTM Ultimate
since it's release in November. It runs great on this system in a mutliboot
configuration with XP Pro. XP Pro definitely feels dated. There is nothing
sad about it.

As with any new OS there are the usual problems with drivers, software
compatibility and in this case especially, a paradigm shift in how the OS
works. The user has a learning curve.

 

[Paul Randall]

I disagree. I was in the TechBeta, and have been running the RTM Ultimate
since it's release in November. It runs great on this system in a
mutliboot configuration with XP Pro. XP Pro definitely feels dated.
There is nothing sad about it.

As with any new OS there are the usual problems with drivers, software
compatibility and in this case especially, a paradigm shift in how the OS
works. The user has a learning curve.

Perhaps dual boot could be a solution to Jim's original question. It would
allow
him to compare the speed and features on both OSs and figure out for his
system and tasks which OS is the upgrade.

Do you have some links on setting up dual boot on systems that are starting
out as Vista only and WXp only?

-Paul Randall

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Can I "upgrade" from vista to winXP?

No. That's a downgrade, and no operating system that I've ever heard of
can do this.

I know it sounds backwards,

Well, of course. It *IS* backwards.

but is it
possible without reformatting the harddrive and doing a fresh, full XP
install?

Absolutely not.

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[Rock]

Perhaps dual boot could be a solution to Jim's original question. It
would allow
him to compare the speed and features on both OSs and figure out for his
system and tasks which OS is the upgrade.

Do you have some links on setting up dual boot on systems that are
starting
out as Vista only and WXp only?

No, but the process is the same. Install the older OS first, in this case
XP, then the newer one, Vista, into a separate partition or drive. The
Vista boot loader will setup the dual boot.

There are some considerations in doing a dual boot with Vista and XP.
Firstly if you have an upgrade version of Vista, the Vista license does not
allow for Vista and the qualifying OS that is the basis for using an upgrade
version to be installed at the same time. So if XP is the qualifying OS,
and a Vista upgrade is used, you cannot dual boot them. You must use a full
version of Vista, or have two XP licenses, one to qualify for the Vista
upgrade and a second one for the XP that is installed in the dual boot.

On the technical side, whenever booting into XP, all system restore points,
volume shadow copies, and all but the most recent backup created in Vista
will be deleted. Booting into Vista does not impact XP restore points. The
way to resolve this is to either encrypt the Vista partitions using
Bitlocker (available on Enterprise and Ultimate versions), or to use a 3rd
party boot manager such as BootIT NG to hide the Vista partitions from XP.

 

[Ron Sommer]

:
: : >
: >> theoretically a downgrade...
: >> in reality an upgrade....
: >>
: >> vista is a bad sad puppy
: >
: >
: >>>> Can I "upgrade" from vista to winXP? I know it sounds backwards, but
is
: >>>> it
: >>>> possible without reformatting the harddrive and doing a fresh, full
XP
: >>>> install?
: >>>
: >>> No such thing. That is a downgrade, and to do that you clean install
: >>> XP.
: >
: > I disagree. I was in the TechBeta, and have been running the RTM
Ultimate
: > since it's release in November. It runs great on this system in a
: > mutliboot configuration with XP Pro. XP Pro definitely feels dated.
: > There is nothing sad about it.
: >
: > As with any new OS there are the usual problems with drivers, software
: > compatibility and in this case especially, a paradigm shift in how the
OS
: > works. The user has a learning curve.
: >
: > --
: > Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
:
: Perhaps dual boot could be a solution to Jim's original question. It
would
: allow
: him to compare the speed and features on both OSs and figure out for his
: system and tasks which OS is the upgrade.
:
: Do you have some links on setting up dual boot on systems that are
starting
: out as Vista only and WXp only?
:
: -Paul Randall
:
:
This is for installing XP after Vista and setting up a dual boot.
http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88231