MJFF88
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How easy is it? I've tried doing it on my new laptop that came with XP but it says cannot locate HDD's.
I've been told it is possible however
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John
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The downgrade is installing xp from scratch, you can't downgrade in that sense of the word.
Why are you going back to a 7 year old OS?
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MJFF88
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Certain things are not working and I just generally prefer the feel and speed of XP 
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Dom
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backup to another drive/CD/DVD and then format and install, only way of going back to XP
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MJFF88
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Backup what? 
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Daveskater
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Registered: 29th Apr 08
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All the data you want to keep, as it will have to format the hard drive to install XP.
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I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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MJFF88
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No but, it wont let me as during the XP installation it says "Cannot locate hard drive". How do I make it locate a hard drive?
I've been told this will happen on all preinstalled vista machines
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pow
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You need to create a custom XP discs with SATA drviers for your hard drive from yhe laptop manufature.
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MJFF88
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I disabled SATA Native mode in BIOS and it seems to be installing fine 
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MJFF88
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Aye, Installed fine doing this 
Ta all x
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