downgrading to xp

Post by **raztat** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:21 am

Im going to restore my laptop soon and i want to downgrade to xp, Last time i tried this it didnt work. I have an alienware laptop, how do i go about downgrading?

Post by **Mozgus** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:22 am

Gaaaanna need more information than that. In my situation, my XP disc wouldn't recognize my hard drive, so I had to make a custom XP disc with the sata drivers embedded, since laptops these days dont have floppy drives, and the XP disc cant accept custom drivers from any other medium. Best way to load up your XP disc with drivers is this site:

http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/

Download all the packs, use their tool to inject them into the disc contents, and then create a new ISO with nLite, preferably without applying any intense hacks.

Post by **PhilExile** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:12 am

Ack, not having a floppy does suck in this situation, but I'm sure its doable with the custom XP disc. You should also call Alienware and see if they offer any type of support for this. They may since its pretty common knowledge at this point that Vista is POS.

Good luck!

Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:05 am

Wow, I am surprised Alienware even gave you Vista. I guess their ownership by Dell is showing...

Post by **raztat** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:32 am

im going to reformat this weekend hope i can do it, with xp i can finaly use both my video cards!

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:32 am

PharmaceuticalCowboy wrote:Wow, I am surprised Alienware even gave you Vista. I guess their ownership by Dell is showing...

haha -- never thought of that

Post by **arion** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:14 pm

wouldn it be better to call this

upgrading to xp

Post by **kgcarini** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:04 pm

arion wrote:wouldn it be better to call this

upgrading to xp

lol!!!!