re: Replacing Vista with XP on new laptop
Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 7:29 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Richard Harris
(243 messages posted)
The simplest solution is really to return the PC and get one with XP installed.
But, if you really want to do it yourself: (1) completely erase the hard drive of
the new PC, using something like FDISK or the DELPART option of the XP recovery console
(run from a set of several floppies available free from Microsoft, or run form an
XP CD), (2) buy a copy of XP and install it.
But, be warned, the XP CD may not have all the drivers you need to make the PC work.
XP is several years old and the PC hardware is new. If the default drivers in XP
do not work well enough to boot the PC, you might be stuck. If they do get it to
boot, then you can try windows update to get newer drivers. As a precaution you
might want to download XP drivers for the PC, before you start erasing things. Such
drivers would come from the PC maker. Copy them to CD or some other easily accessed
place. Maybe even place them on a second partition on the hard drive.
Note that if the PC has a serial ATA hard drive (or RAID or SCSI), you will need
to have drivers for the motherboard's disk controller available on a floppy, and
nowhere else, as the XP installer is too stupid to offer the option to look for these
anywhere else.
On Friday, February 9, 2007 at 7:59 am, Lucy wrote:
>I just bought a new laptop with Vista installed and found that Vista does not support
>the programs I bought the computer to use. I would very much like to remove Vista
>and install XP instead, as it serves my purposes much better.
>
>I have another laptop that has XP installed, and if there is a way I can transfer
>the data without having to buy a new XP software package, that would be plus, but
>I am willing to buy it if I have to. I feel it is worth noting that my older laptop's
>disc drive no longer functions, and this is my main motivation in replacing it with
>the new machine.
>
>I'm not terribly good at this sort of thing, but if there is a way that I can do
>this myself without having to go back to the store where I just bought it, it would
>be a huge relief.
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