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    Installing Xp over Vista questions

    Discussion in 'HP' started by joegeek, Dec 31, 2008.

  1. joegeek

    joegeek Notebook Geek

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    So I got this little 6735s for 350 bucks a week ago and so far I am very happy ecept that Vista is like running a V8 in a Honda.

    The laptop was bought through Comp USA but i emailed HP anyway and told them that "before I send this laptop back to the store due to the Vista OS, I would like to know where I can get a free XP disk."

    So to make a long story short, they are sending me an XP disk to install and they also sent me a link with XP drivers but also said all the drivers I need will be on the new disk that the link was just for newer updates.

    My question, finally....has anyone done this and am I asking for trouble? I want a clean install but not sure i can.
     
    joegeek, Dec 31, 2008
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    Sure. Wipe out the existing harddisk and install with the new disk.

    Use DBAN to wipe the drive

    http://www.dban.org/
     
    gerryf19, Dec 31, 2008
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  3. joegeek

    joegeek Notebook Geek

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    Thanks for the help. is dbanalot better than just putting the Xp disk in and make sure i boot from disk and do an install that way?
     
    joegeek, Dec 31, 2008
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