is it hard to downgrade from vista to xp on a laptop?? what are the steps?? refer me to a webpage please --is it hard on acer lptops??
i've upgraded 2 toshibas, 2 lenovas, 1 hp, 1 sony viao( mine)& 1 acer laptop plus 1 acer tower from vista to xp. i changed the sata in the bios to ide so don't need sata driver at the f6 prompt when loading xp. find & download all your xp drivers either to external hd, cd/dvd or usb flashdrive. after doing the f8 to accept the ms agreement, delete all the partitions on the hard drive, make a new partition then format it. i usually do quick format on a new hd or a drive i know is good. finish installing xp then load all your drivers.
Make sure you have a good image backup before you start (just in case you run into problems). With a backup you can at least go back to a working computer. There are free image backup software (macrium reflect/paragon drive backup express). If you an old xp install disc (xp sp1), you might want to slipstream it to update it to the latest version. http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp
ok ty i thought it was easy as that i was not sure so i guess just start from fresh and install xp from winows vista alrigth ty all
