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    How to down grade from Vista to XP Pro on Sony VGN-Z530N?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by geekintraining, Apr 29, 2009.

  1. geekintraining

    geekintraining Newbie

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    I've the VGN-Z530N that's preloaded with Vista business. I've partitioned my drive to dual boot with XP Pro. When I loaded XP Pro to boot and install, I got the stop message:
    "STOP: 0x000007B (0xF898E524,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)"
    I read a few articles and everything is pointing to Sony's false statement on Vista down gradeable to XP Pro, which isn't available right now.
    Does anyone know any tricks that will allow the partitioned drive to boot from the XP Pro install CD??? Please help!!!!
     
    geekintraining, Apr 29, 2009
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  2. Rachel

    Rachel Busy Bee

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    Rachel, Apr 30, 2009
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