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jappy512 · 12-11-2008, 06:43 AM

Good Day guys,

I have this very hard problem. I tried to downgrade a laptop because my boss had hard time working in Vista Business, so she requested me to change it to xp. The drive was 100GB and it was Shrink into 50-50. The data that was on C: was back up by me in the other partition. I then restart and booted the XP recovery disk. The disk then made the system recovery and finish the windows set up. I was then happy to see that it was now XP. But when I opened My Computer I can only see an 88GB partition with a hidden 5GB partition I think for recovery.

My question is, how do I recover my file from vista coz I never thought that the other partition would would be affected and even deleted by the downgrade. Can I recover it? What are your suggestions. Thanks a Lot in advance. More Power to the team.

12-11-2008, 06:43 AM	#1 (permalink)
jappy512 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Philippines Posts: 37 OS: Win XP Pro, Win Vista Ultimate	Vaio FZ laptop downgrade from vista to xp Good Day guys, I have this very hard problem. I tried to downgrade a laptop because my boss had hard time working in Vista Business, so she requested me to change it to xp. The drive was 100GB and it was Shrink into 50-50. The data that was on C: was back up by me in the other partition. I then restart and booted the XP recovery disk. The disk then made the system recovery and finish the windows set up. I was then happy to see that it was now XP. But when I opened My Computer I can only see an 88GB partition with a hidden 5GB partition I think for recovery. My question is, how do I recover my file from vista coz I never thought that the other partition would would be affected and even deleted by the downgrade. Can I recover it? What are your suggestions. Thanks a Lot in advance. More Power to the team.