reinstalling xp

[bob12a]

I have run Vista now for about a year and would like to go back to XP can this be done

[Tootech]

Hi Bob,

 

Looking at your signature, I am assuming it is your Vista laptop you are referring to ?

 

If it came from the factory with Vista installed you may come up against a good few problems going back to XP.

 

Also, to go back to XP you will need an unused licence and CD, read that as costing money

 

Can you post the make and model number.

 

Personally for everday use I wouldn't recommend going back to XP. I know people do, for lots of reasons, but Vista is really more stable than XP, and more secure. I think also, once you get used to the changed menu's it actually works quite well.

 

Do you have problems with it that we may be able to help with?

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Two other considerations to think about also Bob is that the hardware in the laptop may, and probably will, be designed for Vista only so trying to install XP may not work whatsoever.

 

The other aspect is that MS will be withdrawing support for XP in the not too distant future.

[bob12a]

Will get back to you both tomorrow thanks for now

[bob12a]

As promised now back

 

Thank you both again

The idea of going back to XP is so a friend of mine can use my laptop. He is very very new and at present I would like to keep him on XP as I am not up on Vista as yet but have noted both your comments above.

 

I am happy to loose everything on the lap top

 

Some info from Belarcs

 

 

The red drive below contains (untouched) the system recovery partition of the laptop as it came with xp installed

 

Lap top is a Compac Persio V6000

 

 

Computer Profile Summary

Computer Name: Bflt (in MSHOME)

Profile Date: 06 January 2009 11:32:22

Advisor Version: 7.2k

Windows Logon: bob

 

Click here for Belarc's System Management products, for large and small companies.

 

Operating System System Model

Windows Vista Ultimate (build 6000) No details available

Processor a Main Circuit Board b

1.60 gigahertz AMD Turion 64 X2 (2 installed) No details available

Drives Memory Modules c,d

78.92 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity

27.49 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

 

PHILIPS DVD-RAM SDVD8821 ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]

 

FUJITSU MHV2080BH PL SCSI Disk Device (80.02 GB) -- drive 0

LG USB Drive USB Device [Hard drive] (1.01 GB) -- drive 1 1982 Megabytes Installed Memory

Local Drive Volumes

 

 

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 69.02 GB 26.18 GB free

d: (FAT32 on drive 0) 9.90 GB 1.31 GB free

[BeeCeeBee]

Are you saying that you installed vista yourself or that there is an xp recovery console?

[Dalo Harkin]

There are not normally any issues when reverting from Vista to XP hardware wise as Vista requires much more of everything than XP does - what I think Wolfey is referring to is driver support - If you remove Vista and you do not have XP drivers for your hardware available then you are in trouble.

Going from XP to Vista is easy - the other way round is not recommended - I am unsure of you can still do this now but when people were buying any form of system with Vista on and they HATED it then you just contacted the manufacturer of the system and they sent you an XP disk with a list of drivers no questions asked - as Vista is not in its infancy anymore I am unsure if this is now being done?

[bob12a]

I installed Vista my self without removing the recovery partition/disk which is still on the laptop

Thanks

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Bob I have to ask what on earth your on about here as the details you have supplied quite clearly indicate that Vista has a Recovery partition on drive D:

 

Are you saying you want to sack all that and install XP to that laptop?

[bob12a]

Yes Wolfy that is exactly what I want to do.

 

The idea of going back to XP is so a friend of mine can use my laptop. He is very very new and at present I would like to keep him on XP as I am not up to teaching him Vista

 

Thank you

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Ok fair do's but I can't understand why you would want to remove a perfectly good working OS just to show this guy the ropes.

 

You'd be better off buying some obscure cheap end box with XP already installed on it.

[bob12a]

Ok everyone we will end it there I will have a rethink

Thank you all