Have you successfully downgraded from Vista to XP? Share your experience. Got questions or comments about downgrading from Vista to XP? Post them below. This article was posted by Bob Rankin on 16 Oct Posted by: Craig Golby 11 Aug Something very bizarre has happenned. Laptop running quite satisfactorily in Vista last night was shut down at about midnight.
Booted up this evening and it came up in XP. I don't believe for one minute that we didnt do something, but I have no idea what. Its the wifes laptop, she hasnt installed anything, wouldnt know how and I dont give her those permissions, but that doesnt mean that she didnt select something on boot up. It has brought forward network connections, but has lost email profiles and files etc.
Any ideas what happenned and how I can get back to Vista?? Maybe she just hit the wrong button during startup. Posted by: Nish Rana 10 Sep Posted by: haseeb 11 Sep Posted by: sbrobbs 05 Oct Hi, I bought a second hand Alienware Aurora M laptop with vista home premium already on it. Wanted to install xp pro on a new gb hardrive. Before doing this contacted alienware support they said I need to change some bios settings but would not tell me what as they did not support second hand systems.
Posted by: sbrobbs 09 Oct Hi ED, Did try it it seemed to install fine until I came to update the drivers. I've never seen this before. I also tried to run a diagnostic program to tell me what was on my system but all it did was open a black window for a split second and then nothing but this worked fine on my desktop. Posted by: Raj 18 Oct Posted by: Barry 02 Dec I could not get XP to boot up and making that one change fixed my problem.
You da man! Posted by: Cat Cooter 11 Feb I havce Vista on a Dell inspiron and hate it. Nothing but issues. I have all my music stored on an external seagate drivce and can unplug it but will it still work right?
We can also copy everything off my computer and save it to a harddrive to reinstall, pictures etc. Will this work? FInal problem. I have a Seagate 1.
It was working fine. I downloaded many anime full series on it and used it for back up then it quit doing the back ups.
Next it said there was new software. After we installed the new software it totally screwed up my computer. It took my husband hours to get it working again, but the Seagate cannot be used.
I think we need drivers? Is it possible to fix this or am I just screwed, and will trying to downgrade to xp make things worse? I'm most concerned at this point about getting my big external running again. It's tricky even for tech savvy folks. At this point, I would check the Seagate website to get the latest Vista drivers for your device.
Posted by: Garry 12 Apr Posted by: Ryan 20 Apr I'm trying to downgrade upgrade a dell from vista home basic to xp pro. The xp disk is original and is from another computer. The computer I'm trying to put xp on is a dell that a friend gave me. His wife insisted that I wipe the hard drive right away but they didn't know where the original factory disks where. I figured it was no big deal and I would just over write everthing using the xp disk.
I got as far as the part where they ask for the product key, typed it in but no matter how many times I checked and double checked it would not except the number. I call MS tech support they passed me around from one hard to understand operator to another for about an hour I finally hung up on my 5th operator while she was in the middle of telling me some irelevancie that I had all ready heard from 3 prior operators.
I've been looking around to see if anyone eles has had the same prob so far they havn't. A friend asked me to help her with a bad hard drive.
I understand this was an option Microsoft offered to these types of PCs that were shipped with the first release of vista at no charge.
How can I do this? This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 1. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Once completed, you can choose to boot up either XP or Vista, and has the best of both world.
You will get XP which runs inside Vista, with minor compromise on speed, performance and have to go through Vista first on every bootup. For those who totally fed up with Vista and just want XP, or prefer a clean installation of OS has only this option to rely on.
To downgrade to XP from Vista, you have to basically delete the whole hard disk that installed with Vista, and start anew with XP. However, each system configuration is different, so you may have to adapt the steps to suit your own need.
Note: If the setup does not allow you to delete or format the Vista partition or drive, you will need to find a third party software that can recognize and read NTFS filesystem to clear the drive or partition first.
You will also need a XP product key even if you legally can downgrade from Vista Ultimate or Business edition. You can also create a second partition with disk management utilities such as Acronis Director or Partition Magic, and then move the data files to the new partition.
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