DV9000Z Xp downgrade

I have a friend who after 2 months of vista use has started to dread the thing. He says it is slow when he uses some applications like word and he has 2 gb of ram. I told him that i do not mind vista and that it does not get in the way in tasks. He asked a few technicians if it was possible to downgrade, they said this stuff like it was possible but the DV9000Z was not built for XP use, they also said that he would lose 20 GB of data in the transfer, I said to him that any laptop that works for Vista will work for sure on XP and that he will not lose his data and that if he was so worried I could always put it on a external hard drive. Now I was wondering have you guys ever heard of nonsense like the machine was not built for Xp and that you will lose data I have lost data when upgrading but never downgrading. Now I want you guys just me to help convince this guy to downgrade because whoever these guys where they probably some how had a portion of there salary from Microsoft. Anyone encounter difficulty when downgrading on there DV9000Z???

 

You wont be able to do a downgrade from Vista to XP and keep all your documents. A downgrade will require a clean install(reformat HDD) and so unless you backup the data; all data will be lost. I think thats what the technician meant when he talked about the loss of 20GB data. As long as you backup important data you should be fine.

As for as installing XP on the dv9000z is concerned it should be pretty straight forward considering it was offered with XP until january. So, HP should have the necessary drivers. There might be some minor issues especially they can change some hardware(like audio, quicklaunch or webcam) with newer revisions of the laptop but search through the forum for more info and usually they are fixable using newer/updated drivers or firmware.

Do remember that HP wont support your system if you downgraded to XP which means if you ever need to contact support you will have to put the system back to Vista using the recovery discs for HP to honor the warranty.

 

He says that the machine wasn't built for XP, but the machine was around before Vista was even out yet. Anyways, any computer can have any Windows OS on it. What I would do is go check on HP's website and check to make sure that HP still has all the drivers for download for XP.

Like Miner states, he will lose his documents if he reformats and installs XP unless he backs his data up. Even then, I don't know if Vista Office is backwards compatible to an older version of Microsoft Office. It is definitely something to look into.

Here's is the website for the driver downloads for every operating system that they support for the dv9000z. Also remember, Quickplay for HP can be very difficult to install and you should research it out if you want it to work correctly before you install everything.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?product=3224049&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&submit.y=0&submit.x=0&lang=en&cc=us