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How can I put XP back on? Had an assfull of Vista
Posted: 2007-07-01 07:28pm
by Superman
System restore won't give me a restore point quite that far back, so does anyone know how I can do this?
This was an XP upgrade.
Re: How can I put XP back on? Had an assfull of Vista
Posted: 2007-07-01 07:35pm
by Batman
Superman wrote:System restore won't give me a restore point quite that far back, so does anyone know how I can do this?
This was an XP upgrade.
Get an XP CD and just install over it?
Re: How can I put XP back on? Had an assfull of Vista
Posted: 2007-07-01 11:45pm
by Resinence
Installing over it might not be a good idea, having old DLL's around can cause major headaches. Your best bet is probably to back everything up, put the XP disc in hit install on the vista partition and format it.
Posted: 2007-07-02 10:45am
by Dargos
Once you go VISTA you can't go back anymore Supes. Sorry about that. The only way to go back to XP is to do a fresh install(I mean reformatting the hard drive type) Hope you made backups of whatever you wanted to keep. I hear Microsoft will eventually make a patch that will allow you to go back to XP...but don't hold your breath.
Posted: 2007-07-02 10:50am
by White Haven
Kill it with fire. Fresh install's your only option, system restore doesn't even work for internal OS issues most of the time, much less entire OS swaps.If you want to play with Vista, I'd recommend doing it on a different hard drive.
Posted: 2007-07-02 09:08pm
by Batman
Sorry 'bout that. By 'install over it' I DID mean trash the partition and install XP fresh.