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    Going back to XP on V3000.

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Rahul, Dec 25, 2007.

  1. Rahul

    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    I have a Compaq V3000 which had XP Home preinstalled. I just installed a 30 day trial of Vista Ultimate just to try out. I would like to delete it and go back to XP with the recovery partition.

    I tried F11 to boot to the recovery partition on startup to no avail, where with XP, it used to start the utility no problem. Vista also won't let me start it in Windows as it said I need to be an admin to access it even though I am, of course Vista won't let me go back to superior XP without a fight. : )

    I also never created the recovery discs from the partition.

    Does this mean I'm stuck with the trial Vista and what after the trial expires?
     
    Rahul, Dec 25, 2007
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  2. caveman

    caveman Notebook Consultant

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    maybe the recovery partion got deactivated so in order to reactivate it you go, start menu, right click on computer, manage, then disk managment, then right click on hp_recovery and click mark partion as active.

    this will reactivate the partion so that you can see it again and hope you can boot off of it again
     
    caveman, Dec 25, 2007
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