how would i install xp at my laptop hp dv6000 with vista Home premium ?

Question

i'm sick of vista now.
its taking ages to start,shutdown and most of time application get hang and not responding...i don't want to remove it because its registered version and might be get better in some time as it happend with every new windows OS...in start.
i have 120 GB hard drive and 1024 MB RAM.
Pentium dual core processor.
system HP Pavillion dv6000.
i tried to install xp professional but vista dont let it install.
and it hid the hard drive from xp when i install xp ,xp say there is no hard drive detected...does it mean i hav to uninstall vista first?(wich i dont want)

is there any solution?
any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

2 ways to do it.
You can partition you hard drive and install XP on the new partition since it looks like you have plenty of room.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,73826-page,1/article.html

You can create a virtual PC with XP on it
using MS Virtual PC program, but this won't be as clean and it run kind of weird in my experience.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

I guess you could reformat and do a clean install also

Answer 2

I have Vista Home Premium. The only reason why you should be switching to XP is if you have and want to use software that is Pre-2003 and not Vista Compatible. While there are bugs and a big service pack is due early next year, Vista should still run pretty easily. It may just take getting use to the software. Vista is not backwards compatible. There is no talk if there every will be. I also agree that Vista appears to be an advanced beta version of software. Other than bothering the end user in having them manually do something XP automatically did in the past, I really don't see any added security features over XP. The 3 D aspect is rediculous and only a gimmick that has no value added. To me, the only purpose for Vista is strictly to force IE7, when they see everyone using XP or less has been going to other browsers, I also see it as a money grab to force one operating system for one computer so they don't have to manage one operating per person. Unbelievable there is no quality control whatsoiever. The new Vista also forces all other applications to invest more money to make Vista compatible versions. If there ever gets an open source alternative to the MS operating system, it would put an end to the office suite. XP, will not give you any problems with vista compatible or per-vista software.. Funny how everyone else can do it (backwards compatible, except MS. a lot of people think it was done on purpose, but their plan has back fired on them. They are also saying the ribbon fot office 2007 is a step backwards in many respects and a few steps ahead in others, but an overall slows the user down because the same fuctions cannot be done in a simple present order that key strokes are close to one another.

Answer 3

Best way would be to create a separate NTFS partition on the hard drive and then boot to the Windows XP install disk, installing only to the new partion and creating the dual boot configuration. There are some issues with this per Microsoft (see source). At some time in the future when you are ready to go to Vista forever, you can copy all your settings to a DVD or external hard drive, transfer them into the Vista Premium partition using the Easy Transfer utlility, and then delete the old XP partition.

Answer 4

First of all I think you will find that the hang ups and slow start up and shut down of Windows Vista is due to the fact that you have the minimum required RAM. Increasing your RAM will resolve this issue.
The other solution to installing XP would be to partition the drive and put XP on the partition.

Answer 5

Take my words for this, installing XP on the HP-DV model is a pain, your model has SATA-Raid option set to on, and XP wont go on it because it needs a driver before XP can see the hard drive, now..do you see a floppy drive on your model to install the drivers during XP install ? no... so you are stuck.

You can turn off the Sata option in BIOS, but then your Vista may not work correctly.

Other way is to slip the SATA drivers into the XP CD, and thats no easy task.

Answer 6

ALOT of people are unhappy with vista. I use XP Pro on MOST of my systems at home. But here, you are unfairly blaming vista. This is not vista's fault and not HP's fault. The way you are describing it, the issue is bad software on the system, whether malware, spyware, two antiviruses at the same time OR red flag software (AOell, limewire, banzai buddy, webshots, bearshare, hotbar, free screensavers, smileys, incredimail, etc.

First, bak up your data. Then turn off any multi card readers in bios, unhook any external usb devices. Then put xp cd in system, boot to cd using the one time boot menu (a keystroke combination like f12)

Windows sould load now

Answer 7

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Answer 8

http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista