Jul 11, 2008 This happened to me numerous times. Most recently, it happened after I installed Vista SP 1 via Windows Updates. After downloading and updating to Vista SP1, my wireless connect was broken>and this is not the first time some thing breaks after windows updates>don't even get me started with the internet explorer not working. You would not, however, be able to downgrade to Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Home Premium, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition.

How can I downgrade my new windows vista os to windows. Have M$ mail you that huge SP2. From Windows Vista Home Basic to Windows XP Home. Downgrade Windows Vista to Windows XP. The vast majority of Windows platforms older than Windows XP SP2. No downgrade rights for Vista Home Basic or Home. Corel Draw X6 Only Keygen here.

Many people have issues with XP not installing because the computer cannot detect a hard drive because there is no SATA driver for XP. This seems to be most prevalent with laptops rather than desktops. During the first phase of installation, XP looks for a hard drive. If it is a SATA one and there are no drivers on the XP installation disk, it asks for a driver. Without a floppy, USB drive etc, you're stuffed.

You have to slipstream the driver into the installation package (assuming you are lucky enough to find the SATA driver in the first place). It's a road to hell and back. But in the desktop world it should be less of an issue because there are more ways to try to get around it. Even though HP provide a way forward, I would try installing XP along Vista just in case it all goes horribly wrong. I.e., if the XP installation only gets so far, you can go back to the existing Vista installation. If XP installs properly then you can always start from scratch with the knowledge that it will install. I had no choice but to slipstream the driver - the laptop's BIOS had no option to switch to a compatibility mode.

But it didn't help. Sadly, neither the laptop's vendor (Dell) nor the drive manufacturer had drivers available specifically for that laptop - I could only find SATA drivers for the mobo's chipset.

This was with XP SP2 which only has drivers for hardware available a few years ago. Bottom line - it's not a dead cert to successfully downgrade.

Lots of homework is called for and I tried to install XP along side Vista as a safeguard (my wife would have been rather peeved if I had wiped the system - the restore disks supplied by Dell were in another part of the country.) If your BIOS has the option, you have more of a chance to succeed. Yeah, that should work fine as well Thanks. I may decide to just stick with Vista. I was doing some calculations.

If I stick with Vista, I'd have to spend $250 to $300 more With XP, I would need to buy: Windows XP Home retail CD: $173 HDD to replace the HDD I put into the PC: $90 With Vista, I'd have to buy: CS4 (or CS3): $350 (non-commerical or academic version or on eBay) Elements 7: $80 voice recorder for my college lecture (I'm a student): $150 Do you think CS3, Elements 7, would be compatible when Windows 7 is released? My desktop ships with Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit. I am going to downgrade to Windows XP Home SP2 32-bit using a retail CD. There is other way in which you can use both: Vista and XP, even Windows7 for compatibility testing, if you wish. You can leave your pre-installed Vista Home Premium as is. Download and install Virtual PC 2007 SP1 here: Virtual PC 2007 SP1 is free, easy to use and compatible with Vista. It will allow you to create a virtual PC to install and run XP (or any other Windows OS), side by side with Vista.

Time to learn how to use Virtual PC is 1 hour. The installation of XP as a guest OS on Vista host OS, is fast and trouble free. You would not have to change anything (BIOS, SATA-IDE, drivers.). I'm using it on my HP laptop which came with Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit pre-installed. While I hate Vista, I still need it for my job, so I have to keep it, but most of the work is done within XP on the same machine (nothing related to video editing, though, because I have other PC's for that purpose). Besides, I have installed Windows7 beta, on the same laptop, again using Virtual PC. But I will remove it because I see no improvement over Vista - it is just the same bloated and not user friendly OS.