I brought a new laptop with has Windows Vista Pre installed. I would like Windows XP, so I have bought a Windows XP Home edition disc and taken it to PC world so they can downgrade it for me. But I have been told it can't be done. Are they lying?
2007-03-20 03:15:48 · 14 answers · asked by kitten_nik 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Shouldn't have said downgrade. I don't want Vista at all. There is no dataon the laptop as yet as it is brand new. Coundn't find a new laptop with XP on it.
2007-03-20 03:35:58 · update #1
You can't downgrade it unless you format the hard drive and do a fresh install. This is not really a downgrade, it's a fresh install of xp, so yeah, they are right. But, you can still install the full version of xp.
2007-03-20 03:18:58 · answer #1 · answered by martin h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that they're lying on that one. Downgrading would mean taking away newer files or changing them to older ones and Windows will not let you do that. From the way I see it, I think that you could either, if you have another computer with xp on it, you could, with a computer cable, connect the two together and erase the laptop's hard drive completely, wipe it, and just transfer all of the files from that computer to your laptop, or you could insert the xp cd in your laptop and manually copy all of the files on the cd and then paste them in the main system folder, which would take some hours for the transfer to be complete, and then after that delete the vista files from the laptop, then restart it, and it should then be the xp operating system. I'm not 100% sure on both of these things, but I have tried them both and they both worked for me, but the case was a little different, I was upgrading. If you need more help or info, please e-mail me at arvettedude@yahoo.com and I'll try to help you the most that I can!
2007-03-20 13:02:39 · answer #2 · answered by arvettedude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can not "downgrade" your version of Windows (or most other softwares)
They would need to format the hard drive and do a full install of Windows XP to get back to it. They probably do not want to do that (without your permission) because it would wipe everything on the hard drive - all you music, videos, data files, etc.
The install is simple enough that you should be able to insert the XP CD, boot the computer and let it do the install. You shouldnot need their help to do it.
2007-03-20 03:26:43 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they are not lying when they say you cant down grade but you can reformat them by puting in the disc of windows xp turn your computer off buy the button and when it starts or as it starts rather click f8 and it ashould boot from the cd and then you can run windows xp
2007-03-20 03:20:27 · answer #4 · answered by Liljoe12131993 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as Martin H says,you will have to install xp
insert the xp disc into your drive and reboot, follow the options to do a full format then let it install
2007-03-23 23:22:57 · answer #5 · answered by sploosher2003 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they are just un-install vista and install xp tell them they are talking rubbish but what do you expect from PC world
2007-03-20 03:23:12 · answer #6 · answered by simonjohnlaw 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, but you gotta do a clean install. However Vista is much cooler.
2007-03-22 00:50:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why can't they.? they should reformat vista and install xp .
if they cant do it take the laptop back
2007-03-20 03:19:43 · answer #8 · answered by minty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible that the hardware is new enough that there aren't XP drivers for all of it.
2007-03-20 06:55:07 · answer #9 · answered by Rose D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally i think you should give vista a chance
2007-03-22 06:04:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋