Need Windows XP Drivers for HP Laptop G7070EI

[Guest Imran Khalid]

I bought HP Laptop which has Windows Vista. Now I need to Install window XP

but I couldn't be able to find its drviers from HP web site. Please help me

how I can get the drivers of my laptop HP G7070EI for xp.

[Guest DG]

Re: Need Windows XP Drivers for HP Laptop G7070EI

 

=?Utf-8?B?SW1yYW4gS2hhbGlk?= <Imran Khalid@discussions.microsoft.com>

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> I bought HP Laptop which has Windows Vista. Now I need to Install

> window XP but I couldn't be able to find its drviers from HP web site.

 

No drivers on HP web site? ... mmm...

> Please help me how I can get the drivers of my laptop HP G7070EI for

> xp.

>

>

 

They probably don't exist. Your laptop is designed for Windows Vista and

that's it. I hope you didn't format it yet. And even if you manage to find

drivers for XP, you should still create the Vista restoration CDs if they

didn't come with the laptop to make sure, there must be a utility on your

laptop to do that.

 

DG

[Guest Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

Re: Need Windows XP Drivers for HP Laptop G7070EI

 

"DG" <me@domain.net> wrote in message

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> =?Utf-8?B?SW1yYW4gS2hhbGlk?= <Imran Khalid@discussions.microsoft.com>

> écrivait news:BCB1B15B-E2BE-4614-9348-92760FA69702@microsoft.com:

>

>> I bought HP Laptop which has Windows Vista. Now I need to Install

>> window XP but I couldn't be able to find its drviers from HP web site.

>

> No drivers on HP web site? ... mmm...

>

>> Please help me how I can get the drivers of my laptop HP G7070EI for

>> xp.

>>

>>

>

> They probably don't exist. Your laptop is designed for Windows Vista and

> that's it. I hope you didn't format it yet. And even if you manage to find

> drivers for XP, you should still create the Vista restoration CDs if they

> didn't come with the laptop to make sure, there must be a utility on your

> laptop to do that.

>

> DG

 

If he has reformatted the hard drive, I'm sure that HP will sell him (for a

price) a set of installation disks.

If the laptop originally came with Vista, then that is the OS it's designed

to work with.

I don't understand what the problem is with Vista - one of my 2 PCs has it

with no problems.

Regards Mike.

[Guest Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Re: Need Windows XP Drivers for HP Laptop G7070EI

 

HP Notebook PCs - Issues with Downgrading HP Pavilion and

Compaq Presario PCs to Windows XP and Restoring Windows Vista:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01092639&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=3439686&dlc=en&lang=en

 

 

--

Carey Frisch

Microsoft MVP

Windows Desktop Experience -

Windows Vista Enthusiast

 

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"Imran Khalid" wrote:

 

I bought HP Laptop which has Windows Vista. Now I need to Install window XP

but I couldn't be able to find its drviers from HP web site. Please help me

how I can get the drivers of my laptop HP G7070EI for xp.

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Need Windows XP Drivers for HP Laptop G7070EI

 

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:35:03 -0700, Imran Khalid <Imran

Khalid@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I bought HP Laptop which has Windows Vista. Now I need to Install window XP

 

 

Why?

 

> but I couldn't be able to find its drviers from HP web site. Please help me

> how I can get the drivers of my laptop HP G7070EI for xp.

 

 

They may not exist. Many new laptops don't have drivers for XP.

 

But the way to find out is to contact HP and ask them.

 

--

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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[Guest LVTravel]

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> "DG" <me@domain.net> wrote in message

> news:XnF9ACD4584E7A8Fdoumdomainnet@207.46.248.16...

>> =?Utf-8?B?SW1yYW4gS2hhbGlk?= <Imran Khalid@discussions.microsoft.com>

>> écrivait news:BCB1B15B-E2BE-4614-9348-92760FA69702@microsoft.com:

>>

>>> I bought HP Laptop which has Windows Vista. Now I need to Install

>>> window XP but I couldn't be able to find its drviers from HP web site.

>>

>> No drivers on HP web site? ... mmm...

>>

>>> Please help me how I can get the drivers of my laptop HP G7070EI for

>>> xp.

>>>

>>>

>>

>> They probably don't exist. Your laptop is designed for Windows Vista and

>> that's it. I hope you didn't format it yet. And even if you manage to

>> find

>> drivers for XP, you should still create the Vista restoration CDs if they

>> didn't come with the laptop to make sure, there must be a utility on your

>> laptop to do that.

>>

>> DG

>

> If he has reformatted the hard drive, I'm sure that HP will sell him (for

> a price) a set of installation disks.

> If the laptop originally came with Vista, then that is the OS it's

> designed to work with.

> I don't understand what the problem is with Vista - one of my 2 PCs has it

> with no problems.

> Regards Mike.

>

>

 

Mike, this battle will be ongoing for years.

 

I also have a laptop and desktop with Vista. Personally I don't like it but

am forced to use it. I feel that for most people it is a resource hog,

using "pretty" for no obvious reason. When I turn on a computer I want it

to boot fast, be stable and run the programs I ask it to run and be

compatible with the devices I have. After all the OS is only to support the

production programs, not to be pretty. I have a screensaver for that.

 

My issues are extremely slow printing (XP boxes with slower processors work

great under identical setups) that I haven't found an answer to yet (posted

in vista.print_fax_scan newsgroup), not being able to have different folders

(of the same type) come up and maintain different settings and a few of the

other "tweaks" that I have performed in XP not being able to be performed in

Vista. There is a large learning curve with Vista in getting it to do

exactly what you want and then there is the program and device

incompatibility issue that many are having. I wasn't able to get my

mainstay of Office '97 to install 100% correctly so I have to have Office

2003 & 2007 as my primary products on those machines for teaching duties

(yes I still have students that want to learn Word '97.) I also haven't

been able to get my color laser printer, 2 years old, to work with Vista yet

as the manufacturer doesn't have Vista drivers yet (coming soon) and the XP

drivers don't work.

 

So that being said, back to the Vista newsgroups to attempt to find out

answers to my issues so I can be a happy Vista user.

[Guest William R. Walsh]

Re: Need Windows XP Drivers for HP Laptop G7070EI

 

Hi!

> They may not exist. Many new laptops don't have drivers for XP.

 

Every time I hear this I want to scream. What the manufacturer *supports*

the machine with is one thing. What is possible is something else entirely.

Just about every computer assembled today contains common chips and designs

that are found in many different computers. And if the manufacturer doesn't

provide the software you want, chances are very good that the actual IC

manufacturer *will*.

 

Yes, you'll be doing it at your own risk and you might invalidate any

software warranty or technical support.

Yes, there are some oddball pieces of hardware that won't work. Hardware

that behaves this way is not only rare, but also poorly designed,

implemented and supported.

Yes, you should go through the Device Manager while the thing is running

Vista and write down the installed hardware so you have some idea of what to

look for in the way of drivers.

Yes, you should have restore discs made before doing this...maybe you will

want Vista some day?

> But the way to find out is to contact HP and ask them.

 

No, it isn't. The original poster should save themselves the trouble if they

at all can. HP's technical support will be useless in all likelihood.

 

William