From vista to xp

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 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. I went to your site to see if downgrading to XP is possible. I bought a new computer Acer with Vista on it and have been using XP. Can I install them on Vista and have them run O. I have an acer that came with windows vista.

I have an work at home on line position that requires windows xp that vista does not have. How do I go about getting xp for my acer.

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I'll see you there! I believe so, yes. Leave a reply: Before commenting please: Read the article. Comment on the article. No personal information. Do not plug the power bar back in until a storm, make sure only the tower is connected to the power bar!! Watch the fireworks. I've been up for 3 days trying to make this hunk of junk Vista system run Pirates of the Caribbean online, so if I sound a little retarded, Vista done this to me, lack of sleep.

XP on a 3 year old laptop runs it perfect, with just an intel chipset, it runs like this should be running if it was 10 years old. Microsoft, moveover, Linux has something to say and we want to hear them for once!

Class action suit? Our "dinosaur" Dell WXP works just as well. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.. Let me know if anyone finds a solution that can be performed by someone with less computer knowledge I was used to "updates" or "patches" to help me fix what I felt we paid good money for. Now I have to be an ITS grad or have enough money to have someone else fix it or buy new. My thoughts go out to those of you who have a lot of computer know-how and are still lost.

That's what I see on this forum a lot. That would really suck. That tells me there is no fix I would be stupid to buy a new xp disc and reload vista when i just spent over on this new machine complete with a dual core athlon,3gb memory and decent graphics card that cannot do the job my old dx loaded with win 95 and 98 and then another machine with a amd 1. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?

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I want to hear reply from Microsoft attorney! Wednesday, September 26, PM. Anybody home???!!!???? Wednesday, October 3, PM. Come on Friday, October 19, PM. You obviously work for this lame company.. Why dont you go buy me a new operating system for It is lame that will offer it to a business to downgrade but not the individual user. This operating system is pure trash and refuses to work with half of the hardware I install. Please dont be a moron and say something like, " Well you are not doing it right".

I have been in the IT industry for 15 years and work on comps 8 to 10 hours a day. This is just like every other system MS puts out. They design it then put it on the market for the users to work out the bugs and the kicker is.. Please MS Please let us who dont want to play your "fix it" game to downgrade for free.!!!!!

Saturday, November 3, AM. Carey Frisch wrote: dafacct wrote: The problem, Microsoft, is that you force us to use Vista on new equipment, because it comes pre-installed And no, I do not work for Microsoft.

Sunday, November 11, PM. I very much agree with this post by dafacct!!! Once again, I'm looking long and hard at the MAC. Maybe it's time to make the switch But please please please keep me in line for my cut of the upcoming class action suit.

Saturday, November 17, AM. Tuesday, November 27, PM. Wednesday, November 28, AM. Okay, its pretty obvious people are peed off with vista but arguing who works for who doesnt solve the problems. This obviously means either wiping vista or partioning the drive to install XP. Myself, I chose to wipe Vista My laptop came with vista, I didnt realise when ordering but thought I'd give it a try..

Problem is, with vista wiped and gone for ever,,, so are my drivers for HDD, audio, card reader and so on. I tried to install XP Pro but it keeps getting stuck at the same point, the hardware config Im assuming this is down to the drivers issue. I havent got a floppy option [ooh er] and cant get the drivers to reinstall [which I have on a disk supplied with the vista version].. If anyone is reading this thinking of wiping vista Saturday, December 1, PM.

Im in the pooh with re-installing vista Ive tried creating a system start up disk with XP with the SATA drivers added in using 'nlite' but I must be doing something wrong with the program Sunday, December 2, PM. I am willing to join. I just bought my Vista from Best Buy.