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I want to return to XP. Vista Home Premium came with this laptop. Unfortunately, Vista is the worst operating system ever. But whenever I try to install XP, I get a message that XP cannot detect any hard drive. But I am currently operating vista
Why does this happen? And how can I go back to XP?
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Response Number 2
Name: OtheHill Date: January 16, 2009 at 06:07:31 Pacific
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I would suggest that you try to collect ALL the necessary drivers and burn them to CDR. You may find that some are not available at all. I recently was assisting another user in your position. They couldn't get the HD sound to work at all. SP3 fixed that issue. Wireless networking drivers might also present a challenge.
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Response Number 3
Name: jam Date: January 16, 2009 at 09:24:29 Pacific
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I suggest you keep Vista, repartition the HDD, then install XP on the 2nd partition.
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