Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - I want to downgrade from Vista to XP Home

**sobeit** · 11-29-2007, 02:19 PM

first you need to go to dells website to see if they have xp drivers for your system. If they dont, and you try to install xp, you will have problems.

just use xp and boot your system then choose formatting the hard drive during the phase of choosing hard drive partition to install.

You may want to delete the vista partition and recreate the partition before installing xp.

If your drive is sata, you may need to have drivers and at boot of xp cd, you need to ress f8 to install.

11-29-2007, 02:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
sobeit TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NEAR Posts: 7,433 OS: windows/linux	Re: I want to downgrade from Vista to XP Home first you need to go to dells website to see if they have xp drivers for your system. If they dont, and you try to install xp, you will have problems. just use xp and boot your system then choose formatting the hard drive during the phase of choosing hard drive partition to install. You may want to delete the vista partition and recreate the partition before installing xp. If your drive is sata, you may need to have drivers and at boot of xp cd, you need to ress f8 to install.