Bought a Acer laptop...how do I downgrade to Xp

I bought a Acer Laptop yesterday loaded with Vista home, I want to ditch Vista and go back to XP so how do I go about it without a cd with the drivers on it? I called Acer and they said they don't help with that and I'm on my own....

 

You can download every single driver from the Acer website.

You go to the support website, download, select ur model and boom all drivers are there.

 

thank you very much....

 

I just bought a bigger hard drive and put XP on it. It's a 120gigger vs the 80g that came with it. I believe it's also a bit faster. The new one is the western digital scorpio with a 5400rpm vs the stock 4200 rpm. This is my first notebook and it's a MUCH better experience without Vista and with a larger, faster hard drive. I couldn't believe how easy it was to swap out the drive. Being sata, it was a simple matter of popping off one cover and basically sliding out the drive and replacing. I'm tempted to get another cheap hard drive and try to get Ubuntu Linux working on it. Ubuntu worked great on my spare PC that I recently sold. I'm eager to now try it on the notebook.

I have the 5100-3949 by the way.

 

ok i have same thing i hate vista i got drivers download for xp but im not sure what u do next help please do u have have xp desk ? please help

 

neeed to know how to downgrade to xp i hate vista

 

Make sure what type of your Acer notebook. Under OS choice, choose Win XP and then you could download chipset driver,VGA, card reader,pcmicia, WLAN, and etc. Make sure you download Acer Empowering software. It's not difficult.

 

If you have downloaded all your hardware drivers for XP and put them on a cd, and you've created your restore discs (just in case you want to try vista again one day), you can boot up from an XP install cd and format your hdd and run the setup program to install XP. Run the chipset drivers after install, then the video, and all the other drivers. Then run windows update and load your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs.

Or do what I did and get another drive and put vista on the shelf.

 

Legally you can not downgrade to XP from Vista like you could with 2000 and XP (back in the day). You'll need to purchase the needed software license to go down to XP. Also please note that you'll need to snag all of the needed software and drivers off of Acer's site (check the stickie at the top of the forums).

I also suggest that you do a 1:1 backup of your hard drive via Norton Ghost and or Acronis True Image. Either way keep the D2D recovery partition for when you do go back to Vista (or for when you sell the pc).

We have covered this many times on how to install drivers for XP, I suggest you try a search before asking questions in that department.

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