Vista to XP Downgrade - Comments Page 9

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 ??

EDITOR'S NOTE: Do you have a dual boot setup? Maybe she just hit the wrong button during startup. If that's not the case, then this may help: http://askbobrankin.com/fix_mbr.html

If you guys are getting the blue screen when trying to install xp. do the following.

Go into the system bios (f2 at startup on dell machines)

change the sata mode so that it is not AHCI but the other option (i forget what it is right now.)

Hey presto, it works!

hy
i just bought hp mini atom with xp windowns
then i installed win vista but its going slow to open the programes
so thats y i want to load xp again but many problems appairs
the main issue that ( restart ur computer before its damage the hard drive )
so plz help me

Hi, I bought a second hand Alienware Aurora M9700 laptop with vista home premium already on it. Wanted to install xp pro on a new 250gb 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.told me instead to phone dell presto support for install help. so I went to their site and found you have to pay for the advice. does any body know if they are telling me the truth have never had to change bios settings before to install xp.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Why not just try it?

Hi ED,
Did try it it seemed to install fine until I came to update the drivers.
then got installshield wizard error 6003
with please try the following
close any running programs
empty temporary folder
check internet connection.

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.

any ideas.

can i install windows XP in my leptop this support only vista. plz tell me how can i install xp.

Notebook model: Compaq Presario CQ60 Notebook PC
Processor type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz
Total Memory: 2048 MB
Factory Installed OS: Non-Vista