downgrade vista
Do you have vista ??? Do you have HP Pavilion ???You are still trying to downgrade it ?? You are not able to downgrade it to XP ?? You have searched a lot and read blogs and forums??? Even you are thinking that you cant install XP now ???
Now your search ends here. I have been using windows vista home premium from 2007 august and I have faced lots of problems in vista , I waited more than a year to install Captivate , Flashpaper doesnt works on it. Many others programs are not vista capable. Well not only this I have a long story on vista. I have already faced vista disaster 5 times . I had created backup from softhinks backup program, but I was unable to restore it. I contacted HP , they told me to contact SOFT THINKS , when I contacted ST they advice me to contact MICROSOFT. Later on I left all the things. I found a good resources on web about vista that is www.howtogeek.com
I tried the method of vista boot pro, but it dint worked for me , after I tried nlite , which was unable to install on my laptop. I left everything and finally Im happy with my VISTA , though I can remove vista but I haven’t removed it. It never means that VISTA is not removable , it can be removed .
Please follow the 110% sure process to uninstall vista and install XP : Follow the steps :
you need to install the SATA driver through Floppy drive but if you dont have floppy drive in the system The SATA driver and the installation information is given in the below link : http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericSoftwareDownloadIndex?cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&softwareitem=ob-51521-1&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN : You can use a USB floppy drive for this use the USB floppy drive. After installing the SATA drivers, you will be able to install the XP OS through XP cd. The detailed procedure for installing the SATA driver is given in the above weblink. Please refer the above weblink for the information. You cant use pen drive or usb drive. The only option available to install the SATA driver is through the Floppy Drive.By following the procedure in the weblink you can install XP on your Notebook. After the installtion of XP is complete, we have to install the Chipset drivers. The weblink to download chipset driver for your Notebook: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp36501-37000/sp36880.exe .
All the preinstalled HP programs will not work with XP.The programs are Recovery partition (including possibility to recover system, applications and drivers separately) : HP Photosmart Essential, Roxio MyDVD Basic,Roxio Creator Basic, Windows Media center, QuickPlay for Windows : Recovery CD/DVD,creation tool These are the preinstalled applications which are shipped with your Notebook and will not work with XP.Other programs include HP Total care advisor, Finger print reader etc.
The post is a based on chat with HP online technician Braiden.
