Laptop running quite satisfactorily in Vista last night was shut down at about midnight. Booted up this evening and it came up in XP. I don't believe for one minute that we didnt do something, but I have no idea what. Its the wifes laptop, she hasnt installed anything, wouldnt know how and I dont give her those permissions, but that doesnt mean that she didnt select something on boot up. It has brought forward network connections, but has lost email profiles and files etc.
Any ideas what happenned and how I can get back to Vista?? Maybe she just hit the wrong button during startup. Posted by: Nish Rana 10 Sep Posted by: haseeb 11 Sep Posted by: sbrobbs 05 Oct Hi, I bought a second hand Alienware Aurora M laptop with vista home premium already on it. Wanted to install xp pro on a new gb hardrive.
Before doing this contacted alienware support they said I need to change some bios settings but would not tell me what as they did not support second hand systems. Posted by: sbrobbs 09 Oct Hi ED, Did try it it seemed to install fine until I came to update the drivers. I've never seen this before. I also tried to run a diagnostic program to tell me what was on my system but all it did was open a black window for a split second and then nothing but this worked fine on my desktop.
Posted by: Raj 18 Oct Posted by: Barry 02 Dec I could not get XP to boot up and making that one change fixed my problem. You da man! Posted by: Cat Cooter 11 Feb I havce Vista on a Dell inspiron and hate it. Nothing but issues. I have all my music stored on an external seagate drivce and can unplug it but will it still work right? We can also copy everything off my computer and save it to a harddrive to reinstall, pictures etc.
Will this work? FInal problem. I have a Seagate 1. It was working fine. I downloaded many anime full series on it and used it for back up then it quit doing the back ups.
Next it said there was new software. After we installed the new software it totally screwed up my computer. It took my husband hours to get it working again, but the Seagate cannot be used. I think we need drivers? Is it possible to fix this or am I just screwed, and will trying to downgrade to xp make things worse? I'm most concerned at this point about getting my big external running again.
It's tricky even for tech savvy folks. At this point, I would check the Seagate website to get the latest Vista drivers for your device. Posted by: Garry 12 Apr Posted by: Ryan 20 Apr I'm trying to downgrade upgrade a dell from vista home basic to xp pro. The xp disk is original and is from another computer. The computer I'm trying to put xp on is a dell that a friend gave me.
His wife insisted that I wipe the hard drive right away but they didn't know where the original factory disks where. I figured it was no big deal and I would just over write everthing using the xp disk.
I got as far as the part where they ask for the product key, typed it in but no matter how many times I checked and double checked it would not except the number.
I call MS tech support they passed me around from one hard to understand operator to another for about an hour I finally hung up on my 5th operator while she was in the middle of telling me some irelevancie that I had all ready heard from 3 prior operators. I've been looking around to see if anyone eles has had the same prob so far they havn't. I saw in several differant places instructions that involve choosing the f2 start up going to drives, then sata options and pick one of the two choises.
The problem with that is for some reason those options arn't on mine The bios is 1. All there is is the cmos features,advanced bios features boot dev. So far in everthing I've read not one person seemed to have trouble finding these options and in all of the downgrade trouble I've read about so far none of the people where able to get as far as the product key part. So now I'm confused and stuck with as nicer computer I can't use until my buddy brings the disk but, there's no telling when that'll happen.
Thanks in advance Ry. Posted by: Andre 05 Jun Preferred fix: download the SATA drivers for your computer from either the mobo manufacturer if you-built or computer vendor if pre-built , and apply SATA drivers at the F6 prompt. Then install XP.
It worked for me- XP Pro can find the partitions, drives etc. I couldn't install XP Pro syccessfully yet, as the installer hung up after the first reboot during installation. I am guessing this is because I just wiped the partition when uninstalling Vista Business. There are probably some obscure files that need changing. I'm guessing it was due to changing the bios settings for the hard disks- catch This will require you to make a telephone call to Microsoft per the following link and selected text:.
How do I downgrade? Install a copy of Windows XP Professional with the product key that came with the copy, and then when you hit the activation screen -- which is near the end of the installation process -- select the activate by phone option rather than the online method. You'll likely end up talking with a live rep; tell him that you're downgrading from Vista to XP, and give him the Vista product key. The rep is supposed to walk you through the rest As far as I have seen so far from previous posts, I am unable to downgrade to XP as the Vista Home Preminum addition does not contain the downgrade rights.
This is obviously a pain in the backside and I was wondering if anyone could suggest a plan of action! Regarding the unknown disk please try to disable the sata feature from the system BIOS setup and it will work. Or, read Carey's post 3 up from this one. ChrisLee7 wrote: i just purchased a HP pavilion ap PC and it came with Windows vista home premium and i need it to have windows xp professional on it in order to run some of the programs that are required to have with my job.
I have a hp laptop If I downgrade vista to xp, does it run as it was with vista without any problem or it does affect on some programs to not run properly? Issues you will experience if you downgrade from Vista to XP:. Please visit the following HP support forum for further assistance:. Thank you. Gates providing a forum re. Vista problems on his own site instead of doing something about is a mystery to me.
I have a brand new state of the art Vista PC, and are not able to print on, or communicate with other PC's on our state of the art Microsoft network. Sorry; not any help but a reflection. Do not know what app's you run, but in Vista try "properties" and "compability" in order to fake XP environment.
Just go to bios once "on" the system press F1 or F2 or F10 Key any one for go to setup bios. Now install xp again still having problem check the Media Check wwith other CD any one.
So what you're saying is that if you are like a student and got a laptop with Vista and Office Since you don't have a pro version of Vista If that's the case Andra: Since you do, already, have a clean copy of XP to install, so long as Toshiba really does have drivers available for your system, there are no technical hurdles for you. Yes, you would use the XP key, not the Vista key.
No, you would not be "out of luck" going back to Vista on that system. Installing that copy of XP on another system, however, is another story technically, that copy of XP will be tied to your laptop.
Double-check driver availabilty - that's about it. And, of course, back up any data that you might have on the lappy - this will be a clean installation. Put your cd in and restart the comp press any key to boot from cd when it asks and follow the onscreen instructions. Please help me! Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?
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Sign in to vote. Tuesday, April 3, AM. Proposed as answer by driverron Wednesday, December 31, AM. Friday, April 6, PM. Install any copy of XP with any product key and then ring microsoft to activate - you will then need to quote a non activated vista key and they will profide a activation key for the XP install. Monday, April 9, PM. It appears that your post is now a week old and I am wondering if you have heard anything from Microsoft on it.
I was also told by the Lenovo salesman that there was a Microsoft Downgrade available but seeing your post makes me wonder if that is correct. Tuesday, April 10, PM. They wouldn't for me. I spent literally 4 hours bouncing from one damn support person to another. Wasted a day on this stupid thing. Microsoft's customer support is the 10th level of hell. Even if the motherboard is replaced you will need to buy a seperate OEM pack unless the replacement is done under the warranty period.
Hope the info helps. Wednesday, April 11, AM. If you've got a Vista license that lets me downgrade to a version of XP that you have another disk for it should make no difference where the disk came from. MS uses convoluted license agreements to try and force people to pay for things they already have a right to.
Fact is if we have a media that is legal, and we can prove its source we can downgrade. Hope it helps. Parijat wrote:. Wednesday, April 11, PM. I mean really fast compared to XP downgrade I have right now. In vista, you can multitask without affecting program operation A network protocol I need to run most of my business taks arent supported in Vista anymore.
I tried downloading one, but no luck there. Maybe i havent tried that hard. Anyway, here's my journey through the wilderness of downgrading from Vista to XP Pro.
I downloaded the drivers of my laptop with an equivalent model. After this, I reformatted my drive. All the drivers are already packed in the zip file provided. Other drivers such as for Intel wirelss lan and biometric sensors are manually downloaded from the manufacturer's site. So the downgrade is quite painful on my part. But I'm quite happy for the result. I am able to use the software I need and other matters that work flawlessly with XP. Note: I wish Microsoft could somehow release patches or Service Packs that will make it as a software-friendly OS and backward compatibility support.
If this will not happen, I might stick with XP for a very long time. Don't be fooled by others that XP wont get any support anytime sooner now. I really loved Vista But it's not yet ready for all of us now. Let's wait for a couple of years for microsoft to fix our problems and theirs as well. Tuesday, May 1, AM. Tuesday, May 1, PM. Just go to www. Thursday, May 3, AM. How do you reformat the Drive? What did you boot setup for XP from. Monday, May 7, PM. Tuesday, May 8, PM.
Does the Vista key work with the XP pro?? Your help will be highly appreciated. I have recently acquired a copy of Windows Vista from a neighbor.
They told me that it could be used on two machines, but I soon came to realize that they had been mistaken. Sadly I had already upgraded my machine from XP to Vista and it is now telling me I need to validate it. As I cannot afford to purchase it, I need to find out how to downgrade my machine back to XP. I tried inserting the XP disk, but Vista has only granted my limited use of my machine. Can anyone help me out or give me advise on how to solve this problem.
It would be greatly appreciated. Monday, May 21, PM. Appreciate if you or anyone out there could advice on how to downgrade? Please advice. Thanks, sean. Friday, May 25, PM. What I am trying to respond to is: Anonymous wrote in response to Parijat: "You're contradicting yourself here.
Cheers, Jono. Sunday, May 27, AM. Hi there Where do we get the drivers from to downgrade? Thursday, May 31, PM. Tuesday, June 5, PM.
Can you tell me where I can find it? Wednesday, June 6, PM. Vista drivers should do the work. Friday, June 22, PM. XP Pro Student License is available with me. Hard Drive may not be powered on. Thanks, Krishna. Here is the problem no one at microsoft has a clue on how to deal with the downgrade.
Friday, June 29, PM. After doing more diging on MS's website it seems that while the EULA allows said downgrade and does not specify that the user has to have an xp cd and license. Which is not a downgrade it is moving a license from one pc to another so if you have a pc with XP Home for example and you purchase a new computer with Vista Business and wish to downgrade it as per your rights according to the EULA you can't and are screwed. To me this is an outrage I am going to send the EULA to my Attorney and I will post agian when I have an answer to this in a legal way as the EULA seems clear to me that you can downgrad it does not mention anything about haveing to transfer Licenses from one PC to another but that is how MS is making it look like.
If anyone else would like to work with me on suit against MS to either put in thier EULA that to downgrade you have to have the License of which OS you want to downgrade to or that they come up with a way to make it work so you can have your License downgraded I don't mind if they don't provide media that is easyily found they need to provide new keys for the downgraded software so you can use it. I will reply when I can find a way to comunicate with thoes interested in working with me so that we don't have to put phone numbers down or e-mail addresses to reduce spam.
And I want to do that as soon as I can feel comfortable in doing so. Meaning that I won't get stuck in limbo without a working PC. All I need is some assurance that I can use either product key to install and that there won't be any activation hassles.
Obviously I am not interested in "moving" the license from the other XP installation. Can anyone reassure me on this? There's a wealth of contradictory information being bandied about.
Can we have an official answer from someone at Microsoft? Anyone listening? Friday, July 6, PM. Wednesday, July 11, PM. Saturday, July 14, AM. After finishing the installation, there will be 2 options for you to pick for the Windows Activation. Activate online or activate through Phone Call. Pick activate through Phone Call.
The system will show a series of Installation ID for activation. Microsoft will verify the information and respond within 24 hours. Common case is about hours. Key in the activation key. I don't know how valid that email is since it's off the Malaysia partner page. But at least it's a starting point.
Tuesday, July 17, PM. Friday, July 20, PM. Be glad its not Dell Tuesday, July 24, AM. Tuesday, July 24, PM.
So untill proven otherwise Im sticking by this. Tuesday, July 31, AM. Vista Blue, I was able to preform the downgrade that day the issue that I had was it took hours of time and I had to tie up an exsisting XP Pro License to do the downgrade and by so doing 1 pc used 2 licenses the Vista Business and the XP Pro it was not a downgrade that is where I have an issue as per the EULA it states you can downgrade it does not state that you have to have a spare XP License other wise just get the XP License and screw Vista all together.
Thursday, August 16, PM. The will downgrae using an exsiting OEM Key but the key must not be used on another PC again only on the downgrade so if you have 2 hps 1 xp pro 1 vista if you use the key from your pro to downgrade your vista that will work but you can not use the orginal pro computer with that key so yes you will have to have 2 licenses to do the downgrade and yes microsoft is making you essentaly purchase 2 licenses as you will loose the Pro license to downgrade vista.
It does not state that you have to have a license for it. MS is screwing everyone whom chooses to downgrade. Or can I just overwrite the Vista system files with XP and everything will be peachy. Friday, August 17, PM. I want to downgrade windows vista to windows xp pro thanks bob. Tuesday, September 18, PM. Thursday, September 27, PM. I have an Acer Aspire T with vista basic, and i absaloutley hate it. I would have bought the XP por version but this was the only one i could afford.
I have XP pro on the other hard disc that i salvaged from my old computer but it's XP keeps rebooting halfway through starting up, does anyone have a way the can help me aswell? Saturday, October 13, PM.
Have to absolutely and respectfully disagree with this persons assertions as to Vista's performance. Vista is a hog compared to XP. Sunday, October 14, PM. I work in IT support, and deal with multiple companies. Friday, October 19, PM. Friday, October 26, AM. Monday, October 29, AM. As per Russian Microsoft official representative: You should act as follows: 0. Actually thes should be from the same bundle.
Get your Vista product key ready and call your local activate-by-phone service when requested 4. Activate your XPProf. You can install Vista later instead of this XP anytime. The only point: only one activated OS at a moment per one product key. Regarding the drivers and the downgrade disks: 1. If you can download drivers for your PC from vendor's site - feel lucky You can use, for example nLite google it to embed drivers into your installation disk.
In some cases, discs are shipped with the PCs; in others, users must request them. Don't bother calling Microsoft; it won't provide installation media, and will instead direct you to your reseller.
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