Hi Bienana,
Steps must be taken in advance. Laptops are different from desktops. They have proprietary drivers that need to be available for boot or bad things happen. For example the CD-ROM won't be there any more. Then how will you load anything?
What you will have is a plastic rectangle that keeps asking for an operating system you can't install.
First, create a boot disk.
Second, create another boot disk.
Test them both. Make sure the CD works.
Now for some alternatives to formatting your hard drive.
Click here for a site thats offering Windows XP recovery CD's to those Vista owners that want XP. The offer is good through July 31, 2009.
Click here For the Toshiba site specifically for downgrading Vista to XP. It's a source for the drivers that inevitably don't get copied, what rights you have for which version and so on.
Both sites will give you some important insight before you take the plunge.
Mike
HELLO. THANK YOU FOR YOUR REQUEST. I HAVE A HP PAVILLION A6248XPC AND SOMEHOW ALL DRIVERS WERE ERASED FROM SYSTEM. I DECIDED TO DOWNGRADE TO WINDOWS XP BUT I NEED TO INSTALL AT LEAST THE NETWORK DRIVE IN ORDER TO INSTALL ALL OTHER DRIVERS. IF YOU CAN, PLEASE HELP. THANK YOU AGAIN
HELLO AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY PROBLEM. THE DESKTOP PC WAS PURCHASED WITH WINDOWS VISTA INSTALLED. SINCE ALL DRIVERS SOMEHOW WERE ERASED AND HAVING MANY PROBLEMS WITH VISTA I DECIDED TO DOWNGRADE THE SYSTEM TO WINDOWS XP. UNFORTUNATELY IM STILL MISSING THE DRIVERS TO THE WHOLE OPERATING SYSTEM. IF YOU CAN HELP I WILL APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU AGAIN
i have a dell optiplex sx 270
at the moment i'm running ubuntu
but i want to install windows xp
but i need a network driver for windows xp
from jason freegard
i think you have mentioned the wrong model name.i cant find any pavillion model that you have mentioned.
Do you have the model number of the mainboard?
If not and it was bought as a complete system is there a manufacturers model number for the system?
Need the Make and Model.
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