how ????????to DOWNGRADE my laptop Vista to XP
By hotsatya
@hotsatya (240)
India
March 4, 2010 12:49am CST
i have a laptop of HP dv2500, it will come with win vista but i m not comfortable with it and i want to install win XP in it, whenever i am trying to install XP in it, this option will come hdd is not attached
F3 for quit. before formating
3 responses
@topffer (42156)
• France
4 Mar 10
1) It's easy if your BIOS contains an option to run your SATA HDD in IDE mode (do it before running the XP CD).
2) If this option is not present, try to install with a XP CD containing SP2 : it may recognize your SATA HDD.
3) you need an external floppy drive (not easy to find today :( ) with the SATA drivers in a floppy disk. Hit F6 at the beginning of the XP install, to install SATA drivers first.
I wish this help you.
@urbandekay (18278)
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4 Mar 10
Your machine has a sata hd which will not be recognised without the driver, you can download online. Will probably run faster on XP as Vista is rubbish
all the best urban
@urbandekay (18278)
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4 Mar 10
No, there won't be that option because there is no driver for it. Like I said you need to download one, go to the HP site, read forums, etc.
all the best urban
@kaylachan (57687)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4 Mar 10
The one flaw that was programed into vista was that its not possible to downgrade easily. At least not with the usual method. The only way I could think to do it, would be to run the disc (xp) in dos mode. Of course you would have to know some dos strings to get your computer to format the drive in dos mode. Which is tricky to do. You have to catch this before the windows splash screen appears. basically during start-up when the logo of your computer appears. I believe hitting either one of the fuction keys will kick it into dos mode.
