XP not wanting to install on pre-installed vista laptop? - Saxperience

Elliott · 23rd November 2009, 14:49

Hi everyone

Now im clued up on IT but this is bugging me!
The laptop ive got came with Vista on it, im wanting to put XP on it and its not having none of it.

It will accept vista or 7 just not xp! Can anyone shed light on this...

Thanks

MunkyBoy · 23rd November 2009, 14:53

Whats it doing?

I mean, your obviously wiping the drive and installing, so what isnt it actually doing?

Elliott · 23rd November 2009, 14:58

Well the last time i tried it i just wouldnt install it.

Cant remember exactly what it said.

Got a virus on here from dodgy downloads so need to wipe again, will try install XP tomorrow and let you know

kennysevenfold · 23rd November 2009, 15:14

1 - Make sure you can get xp drivers for your laptop.

2 - Use Vista Shrink disk utility HERE and create a new partition.
Boot from your xp disk and install xp on the new partition. Now you have xp and vista

No point in paying for a laptop with vista and not using it.

davidandrews5343 · 23rd November 2009, 15:17

just boot from cd, i assume you tried to instal when in vista? wipe the drive, remove any wank recovery partitions

kennysevenfold · 23rd November 2009, 15:32

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Originally Posted by davidandrews5343

remove any wank recovery partitions

That come in handy when vista goes wrong

davidandrews5343 · 23rd November 2009, 15:33

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Originally Posted by kennysevenfold

That come in handy when vista goes wrong

norton ghost does a better job

kennysevenfold · 23rd November 2009, 15:38

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Originally Posted by davidandrews5343

norton ghost does a better job

Course it does, you have to pay for it.

MunkyBoy · 23rd November 2009, 15:52

Make a recovery disk, and wipe everything from the hard drive. Whats the point in having a drive where like 10gig is wasted with a recovery sector?

kennysevenfold · 23rd November 2009, 16:03

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Originally Posted by MunkyBoy

Make a recovery disk, and wipe everything from the hard drive. Whats the point in having a drive where like 10gig is wasted with a recovery sector?

Well if you have a 320 gig drive for instance, and use 60odd gig.
A 10gig recovery partition is no big deal, and theres always the chance of loosing the backup disk. Each to there own though.

Penn · 23rd November 2009, 18:06

Can't downgrade to XP, might be your issue.

If you're in vista or 7, go to your disk manager and create a partition to install XP to. Should then have the option upon installing XP to format the other partitions.

Failing that, find a format utility to format the drive, then install XP.

Noddy · 23rd November 2009, 22:02

boot from the XP installation disk, you'll have the option along the way to format the drive. Use that and you'll then be able to have XP on there

miken2k8 · 23rd November 2009, 22:20

had the same problem mate only on a desktop

releaf · 24th November 2009, 16:04

You have to make a partition using the vista partition, then make it boot from disc when you first start your computer up, you will get the boot menu for vista, seven and earlier version of windows as it uses a different boot option you can get programs to change it or even do it in MS dos if you know how.

Hope this helped