Need help changing Windows Vista to Windows XP.?

Question

Hey there - I have a bit of a problem with downgrading my HP G7000 Windows Vista (Premium) to something a bit more stable like XP Pro/Home.
I've wanted to do this conversion since the day I got it (about a under a year ago) since Vista has just generally been nothing than a pain in the collective behind to use, since the majority of my applications (mainly games) do not wish to run.

I've tried both setting up new partitions and uninstalling the existing one, without sucess.

I'm not normally one to ask for help about computers, since I have a fair wealth of information and experiance under my belt, but this has truly baffled me completely and all help would be greatly apreciated.

All help is greatly apreciated!

Answer 1

this is typical, as your primary partition will be a small fat32 partition with the recovery utilities in the event of a crash

but first of do the following

make a recovery ( for vista ) disk, somewhere in the HP utilities will be the tools for doing that

once the DVDs are made, this in case you ever ( doubt it ) go back to Vista



secure all the driver needed for XP, typically it's the chipset, the SATA driver, the LAN driver, Video driver, Audio Driver and so on, despite HP stance on no more XP support, you still can find the drivers, as HP does not make their own hardware, so you might have to go direct to the hardware website for drivers, sometimes you get lucky and can find zipped up driver packed all ready fro your laptop uploaded to rapidshare or other file sharing sites, I found my drivers partially in this manner and by going to Toshiba of Canada, again Goggle is your best friend



make sure you BIOS is set to boot from the CD and to not boot to any secondary device ( HD0 or USB )



hunt down program called killdisk, this will positively kill the partitions on your laptop, it's free and it should be a small bootable cd DOS image, burn and boot to it



next





I'll assume your XP disk is bootable

as if it's not

then you not going to be able to do anything

as the XP disk must be bootable ( OEM or Retail ) to install XP over Vista



once you got the XP CD installer booted the rest should be easy from there, though on HP you might need to adjust a setting in the bios for "Native SATA" drive that

might to be disabled in order for XP to see the drives normally



though when I did the conversion on my Toshiba laptop ( and I do not consider it a downgrade but an upgrade ) i used a customer version of XP Sp3 which included SATA drivers so it booted seeing the SATA drives ( 2 in my laptop )





once done you see how fast XP will be ( especially if you use Nlite on XP and strip down the unnecessary processes or hunt down the eXperience post install service scripts which will shut down and install unnecessary services



BTW you biggest issue will be the audio

as was for my toshiba



here are you 2 key issues---



- Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter.

- Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221.



Atheros Ar5007:



http://www.atheros.cz/download.php?atheros=AR5006EG&system=1



MS UAA Hotfix(required with a reboot before Conexant):



http://www.mediafire.com/?4ben9zlesng



Conexant SmartAudio 221:



http://www.mediafire.com/?dg0cmmkm4y4



READ Carefully>>.Unzip to a folder.Run installer.if it errors use Device Manager.



From Device Manager,right click "Audio Device on HD",choose Update driver,



No to connect,



Install from a list or specific location,



Select Don't Search, I will choose the driver to install,



For the Hardware Type select 'Show All Devices'



Remove the check from "Show Compatible Hardware" and click on "Have Disk".



Next...browse to the unzipped folder and choose the "WiSVHe5.inf".



Ignore XP when it complains.



Reboot.







XP SP 2:



http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

Answer 2

I do not care what persons who declare the realize the whole lot approximately computer systems say. I am a individual who go back 3 prime powered computer systems in view that Vista was once the sort of nightmare. Here's the truly tale and actual information, Microsoft is presently being sued by means of every person who purchased a laptop over a one 12 months interval in view that they claimed their program might run on all computer systems than ran XP so long as it had 512MB RAM. They have a significant disorders, in view that there are not any assessments that turn out that declare has any validity whatever. In addition, hardware on XP computer systems is notably weaker than hardware that's had to run Vista. As such, there may be no one in the world that has effectually upgraded from XP to Vista utilising the identical laptop with out thoroughly exchanging the hardware. I have a replica of Vista that was once given to me without spending a dime. That replica is actually in my freezer. That's correct! It's on ice till hell freezes over. If you sucessfully improve to Vista, you are going to now not have the hardware to force the OS. Vista is already gradual for every person, however suppose how so much slower it might be if you do not also have the hardware to run it. And what are you gaining. If you favor the best way Vista appears, now not quandary, there are lots of skins you'll be able to upload to XP as a way to enable your XP to appear and run precisely like Vista, however quicker and higher. The handiest change is the the XP variation might not be in a position to run Direct 10X-so you are going to in no way pass over it. My advice is to stay with XP, and for those who like Vista, upload the Vista capability that's without problems observed on the internet and duties five mins to difference. You laptop will run quicker than your peers that experience vista and more potent hardware, plus you are going to don't have any crashes or blunders message that plague Vista. All the ones motive force problems are handiest Vista problems and now not XP. Why threat your presently packages now not operating on Vista whilst there is not any have to improve. Vista offers customers no purpose to improve

Answer 3

pop in ur vista disk

and format the drive

remove the vista

then put in xp