Downgrading From Vista Advice = DV6614tx

Hello

My laptop (HP DV6614tx) came preinstalled with windows vista home premium and what i want to do is install a brand new copy of Windows Xp Professional onto it instead of staying with vista. Its not that the laptop cant cope with vista, infact it goes along ok but im just over it.

I have made the restore discs that you are required to make when u first get your laptop incase i want to go back to vista at some stage (i cant see how they reckon that is any easier than just giving u all the discs that u need.) So whats the best way i should go about doing this? Is there someway that i can get the drivers for my laptop and put them on a disc or something but if i get them off the pc they would be vista drivers not xp ones, right? Would the Verisoft finger scanner software work on Xp cause thats basically all i use to access my laptop? (as gimicky as it is).

It would be possible for me to make another partition and have like a duel boot vista/xp system wouldnt it? Are there any problems with doing this? I have a big hard drive so space is not an issue there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

 

The amount of people i have seen doing an install of Xp on a laptop, only to think that thier hard drive, or drive controller is dead isnt funny.

Main thing to remember is the implementation of the SATA drivers when doing the install. The way i go around it was to create a completely custom XP CD, that had every SATA driver known to man on there, and loaded them all up, and then it was just like installing it on a desktop, there are custom installers that spring to mind, BartPE, or the one i used was called ******lite? i cant remember, i was ages ago. maybe another forum member could step up with the name of the software.

good luck to you, whatever you do




EDIT : I think this is it

http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

 

Hey Thanks for the quick reply. Greatly appreciated. I think i'll have to read up on doing this a bit