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    downgrading from vista home premium to XP

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by sivakrishnamannem, Sep 11, 2007.

  1. sivakrishnamannem

    sivakrishnamannem Notebook Enthusiast

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    i bought my laptop with xp professional , but after i got the upgrade dvd to vista i upgraded to vista, i created the XP dvd's using e recovery before i upgraded, now i want to go back to XP, i searched a lot about a tutorial how to downgrade or do a clean install of XP on my laptop running vista premium, and also will all the drivers be there in the DVD which i created....can any one please help me how to downgrade from vista to XP...thankx in advance...
     
    sivakrishnamannem, Sep 11, 2007
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  2. yuio

    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    switch the boot order in your BIOS, to CD/DVD first, put the disk in... reboot... if that does not work, you might need to downrade your BIOS

    why don't you like Vista?
     
    yuio, Sep 11, 2007
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    odin243 Notebook Prophet

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    Since you created the recovery DVD's, all you need to do is reformat and then use the DVD's you made.
     
    odin243, Sep 11, 2007
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    howard38lancs Notebook Geek

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    wonder if its possible to do a duel boot and have both xp and vista installed
     
    howard38lancs, Sep 12, 2007
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  5. yuio

    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    I have heard its possible but difficult
     
    yuio, Sep 12, 2007
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