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Downgrading from vista to xp
Name: bored911 Date: January 27, 2008 at 12:07:49 Pacific OS: Vista CPU/Ram: 2.0 gb RAM Product: Sony Vaio VGN-AR660U
Comment:
Hi, i'm trying to downgrade from vista to xp, but when i boot from the xp disk it doesn't recognize my HDD, how do i fix this?
Name: Sabertooth Date: January 27, 2008 at 12:43:11 Pacific
Reply:
What type of disk -- IDE or SATA?
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Response Number 2
Name: jefro Date: January 27, 2008 at 12:51:57 Pacific
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I agree with sabertooth. I suspect you may need to either make a barts/ubcd4win disk or slipstream a disk with drivers and might as well add in service pack.
I haven't fully tried it but you can use the vista cd as a PE disk. Might be able to install it that way.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.
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Response Number 3
Name: The_Oracle Date: January 27, 2008 at 13:11:32 Pacific
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if setting the SATA mode in your BIOS to Non-RAID/IDE doesn't solve the problem you need the xp controller drivers loaded either via Floppy or slipstreamed installation CD
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser Date: January 27, 2008 at 13:26:33 Pacific
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Oh man this notebook is pricey - $2,299.99 plus taxes, S&H. According to the link the HD is 5400rpm SATA. For that amount of $$ he could have bought similar notebook from HP or Toshiba with XP preinstalled & ready to use.
i_Xp/VistaUser
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Response Number 5
Name: Ike Peters Date: January 27, 2008 at 14:38:38 Pacific
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Just a thought, make sure you have all the necessary drivers for your hardware to change from Vista to XP, if you don`t, it can be a can of worms, some hardware mfgs do not offer XP drivers for a Vista system.
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Response Number 6
Name: lurkswithin Date: January 27, 2008 at 16:03:52 Pacific
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Ike Peters
Microsoft's rule to OEM builders for supplying newer Vista operating sytem on new computers is that they now cannot offer XP drivers to the same computer.
OEM, Branded new system builders get special conciderations for this! As in special pricing.
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