Can I Go Back To Vista (w/ Factory Settings) After Downgrading To Xp?
Posted by benny in FreeWare on July 27th, 2009 | 6 responses
I want to downgrade to XP on my HP dv6704ca, when I purchased the laptop about one month ago I created a set of recovery disks with HP’s software. It said that I could restore to factory settings if I wanted to. So if I downgrade to XP, could I go back to Vista with factory settings using the disks if anything goes wrong? Also do I need to do anything before installing XP aside from getting all the XP drivers. Or do I just insert the XP disk, boot with it, format my HD and install. Really appreciate your help!
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6 Responses to “Can I Go Back To Vista (w/ Factory Settings) After Downgrading To Xp?”
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I strongly disapprove of it…..Vista uses different drivers…you will encounter enormous bios and boot troubles. I think Vista is “the thing” nowadays…it seem to have this “video grip” that xp doesnt have. It’s like buying a new pair of jeans..would you soak it in mud, because you could use your washing machine afterwards………..
you can keep both programs on the system.
If you want to put XP on a SATA hard drive, you are looking at a whole lot of work ahead of you.
***IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO PUT XP ON A SATA DRIVE W/O AN EXTERNAL FLOPPY DRIVE, AS THE SATA HARD DRIVE WILL NOT RECOGNIZE THE INSTALLATION DISK.***
Here is a link to a page that has more information:http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/…
Hope this is beneficial.
Yes – by all means. If you downgrade and it is not what you want, the CD inserted has an option to “restore to factory default settings.”
well if you are formatting the HD it will completely whipe vista off, so i dont think you can.
try to partition it and duel boot vista and xp
Shouldn’t be a problem. When the install occurs, it will wipe out XP and re-install Vista