Installin Xp Over Vista

[ezzra]

Hi,

I have a legal Volume License XP3 key and i would like to install it over my

pre-installed Vista premium on my HP Pavilion laptop,

can any one guide me as a lay man as to how it's done please?

Thanks,

[sniffdog]

You want to discard Vista or want to install XP as additional OS?

[webfact]

Hi,

I have a legal Volume License XP3 key and i would like to install it over my

pre-installed Vista premium on my HP Pavilion laptop,

can any one guide me as a lay man as to how it's done please?

Thanks,

You might want to read what Microsoft Vista Forum has to say about

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/5546...over-vista.html

Edited June 9, 2009 by webfact

[JSixpack]

Google around, look on the HP forums, and see if anybody has done that already on your exact model. If you can find XP drivers for all the hardware, then it shouldn't be much of a problem. I did a Toshiba laptop but was fortunate that somebody had located all the drivers already and packaged them up. There was an issue about the sound--it was something like, you had to install SP2 first and then SP3, else it wouldn't work . . . . Anyway, my friend was awfully happy to get rid of that Vista, as indeed I would be.

[webfact]

IMHO it is impossible to downgrade from Vista to XP and maintain all settings.

Only a clean XP install will do the job.

[jackdanielsesq]

Reformat ya HDD with XP CD and do a clean install. Dont do any upgrades/patches, etc. Add AVG 8.5 - which ya must upgrade daily. There are drivers everywhere. Then install some flavor of Linux.

BR>Jack

PS Remember to delete ALL partitions with XP.

[Thanh-BKK]

Hi.

Is that a new laptop? Because i tried and failed to get XP on one of those (also HP). For one HP has NOT released XP drivers for it, however there are "hacked" drivers available that are from other models and work, sort of. BUT i failed because of the SATA HDD. XP will not detect it during install (BSOD sooner or later during setup) and to get the driver in during install you need to have it on a FLOPPY, the thing won't take a USB stick (Windows, that is - only accepts floppy).

And of course the laptop didn't have a floppy drive and who in the world has a USB-floppy drive..?

Ended up putting a (pirated) Vista on instead of the nice, genuine, XP. Wasn't my machine and i wasn't responsible for getting the software.... otherwise i'd have taken Ubuntu.

Best regards.....

Thanh

[ezzra]

Thanks to all for the contributions, my HP is new the dv6000 series,

but after reading the comments here i think i'll stick to what i have

got now as i have no idea what can of worm i be opening once i change

to XP,

hopefully easier solution will come along one day,

[JSixpack]

If you have time to fool with it, I think you could successfully put XP on that model HP--to judge by some postings on the web. If you fail, can't you put Vista back on?

I hate Vista as well, so anybody who wants to get rid of it has my sympathy. I have XP on all my boxes and it runs and looks great. So, here's help.

There's a great thread here about installing XP on your model:

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/insta...ta-on-hp-laptop

Here's a youtube video, has drivers. Author says:

i was fixing this laptop for a friend and he didnt like vista... soo i re-formatted the hp and put xp.... but hp drivers for xp didnt work... soo now i had to go do some weird shit to ge them

now that i got them im giong to share them... these are all the drivers youll ever need

maybe it will help someone trying to get out of vista.. i hate hp.. but their hard ware is awsome.. just their programing skills suck balls... oh no sound in the video so dont adjust your speakers..

Cd that i made with all the drivers of dv6000 for xp

Rapidshare:

http://rapidshare.com/files/135427294...

Megashare:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YSVCQYNF

Base System Device---- its just storage driver below link

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-335 00/sp33413.exe

update to the audio driver if the audio driver on the cd dont work for you use this driver...

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/d...

on more news

OK looks like when your installing the audio it wont work from the CD... this is what you have to do 1st install the sm bus then the AMD update and restart your PC then install the audio driver from the cd and ta da it works.. and as for the wireless driver it does work, you just have to turn off the button for the wireless that's in front of your PC and then install the wireless and then restart your PC and ta da it works ... hope that helps

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and then there's this:

http://cegeekbook.blogspot.com/2009/06/hps...talling-xp.html

has a link for the drivers:

http://www.topix.com/forum/computers/hp/T4E1C3AVFVG1DB1C9

And these guys (http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-5007-i-need-all-the-drivers-for-hp-dv-6000; lots of posts there) say:

There are no SATA drivers in XP - however what you are looking for is in BIOS. I don't have a HP Laptop right now maybe somebody can enlighten you, what you need is in the SATA section of BIOS, it comes set to AHCI or something and you change it to standard, reboot and Windows XP can see your drive. Sorry that's a bit vague I did a XP Downgrade on a 6700 box a few days back (number 23 I think by now) but I can never remember the exact setting till I see it and the box is back with the happy owner running XP

to install XP The method is here

http://www.fastfs.com/help_pages/hp%20downgrade.htm

and:

There is a driver file sp32646 you need to down load from the HP site (if you type the sp32646 in Google its faster), Install this first and then the audio drivers and then the Modem drivers, this will sort out the audio problims,

(all other drivers are on the Hp.co.uk site)

Seems you need to install XP2, then drivers, then SP3.

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista-7/...ta-install.html a guy says re: SATA

Make a recovery disc (as mentioned before)

Go online and download all available XP drivers and save them to a flash drive

Disable native SATA support

Install XP pro

Click Control Panel > Add New Hardware

- This should tell you what hardware needs drivers

Use your recovery disc to search for and install drivers

For each driver that won't install, try the ones you downloaded

Your XP installation should be working

The only problem is, you don;'t have SATA support, so the hard drive won't be as "good". I couldn't even tell a difference, personally.

[H2oDunc]

I cannot understand wh anybody in their right mind would want to go backwards ? I have had Vista now for around 20 months and think its far better than XP in so many ways. I have never had a blue screen of death and it manages my music, films and pictures far better than XP ever did. Yes it is different to XP but just stick with it and in no time you will be a fan for sure

[ezzra]

If you have time to fool with it, I think you could successfully put XP on that model HP--to judge by some postings on the web. If you fail, can't you put Vista back on?

I hate Vista as well, so anybody who wants to get rid of it has my sympathy. I have XP on all my boxes and it runs and looks great. So, here's help.

There's a great thread here about installing XP on your model:

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/insta...ta-on-hp-laptop

Here's a youtube video, has drivers. Author says:

i was fixing this laptop for a friend and he didnt like vista... soo i re-formatted the hp and put xp.... but hp drivers for xp didnt work... soo now i had to go do some weird shit to ge them

now that i got them im giong to share them... these are all the drivers youll ever need

maybe it will help someone trying to get out of vista.. i hate hp.. but their hard ware is awsome.. just their programing skills suck balls... oh no sound in the video so dont adjust your speakers..

Cd that i made with all the drivers of dv6000 for xp

Rapidshare:

http://rapidshare.com/files/135427294...

Megashare:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YSVCQYNF

Base System Device---- its just storage driver below link

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-335 00/sp33413.exe

update to the audio driver if the audio driver on the cd dont work for you use this driver...

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/d...

on more news

OK looks like when your installing the audio it wont work from the CD... this is what you have to do 1st install the sm bus then the AMD update and restart your PC then install the audio driver from the cd and ta da it works.. and as for the wireless driver it does work, you just have to turn off the button for the wireless that's in front of your PC and then install the wireless and then restart your PC and ta da it works ... hope that helps

-----------------------

and then there's this:

http://cegeekbook.blogspot.com/2009/06/hps...talling-xp.html

has a link for the drivers:

http://www.topix.com/forum/computers/hp/T4E1C3AVFVG1DB1C9

And these guys (http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-5007-i-need-all-the-drivers-for-hp-dv-6000; lots of posts there) say:

There are no SATA drivers in XP - however what you are looking for is in BIOS. I don't have a HP Laptop right now maybe somebody can enlighten you, what you need is in the SATA section of BIOS, it comes set to AHCI or something and you change it to standard, reboot and Windows XP can see your drive. Sorry that's a bit vague I did a XP Downgrade on a 6700 box a few days back (number 23 I think by now) but I can never remember the exact setting till I see it and the box is back with the happy owner running XP

to install XP The method is here

http://www.fastfs.com/help_pages/hp%20downgrade.htm

and:

There is a driver file sp32646 you need to down load from the HP site (if you type the sp32646 in Google its faster), Install this first and then the audio drivers and then the Modem drivers, this will sort out the audio problims,

(all other drivers are on the Hp.co.uk site)

Seems you need to install XP2, then drivers, then SP3.

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista-7/...ta-install.html a guy says re: SATA

Make a recovery disc (as mentioned before)

Go online and download all available XP drivers and save them to a flash drive

Disable native SATA support

Install XP pro

Click Control Panel > Add New Hardware

- This should tell you what hardware needs drivers

Use your recovery disc to search for and install drivers

For each driver that won't install, try the ones you downloaded

Your XP installation should be working

The only problem is, you don;'t have SATA support, so the hard drive won't be as "good". I couldn't even tell a difference, personally.

JSixpack,,,

You are no doubt a fountain of knowledge and information and you have been very

helpful

The thing is am just a lay guy and probably will not be able to follow all the instructions correctly so i leave as is

for the time being,

Thanks again,,