Vista - uninstall windows to roll back from vista to xp

I got a copy of windows Vista premium home editionand thought great I could
take advantage of the new windows but my games either no longer work or are
much slower than before so i figured id uninstall windows vista and go back
to Windows XP but I cant find any way to do that the other option was to
format the hard drive and reinstall everything but It won't let me do that
either please help
--
love & Light

"drizzt.is.brian4238" <drizztisbrian4238@xxxxxx> wrote:
Give this a try first:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168

Charlie42

How can i format windows vista and install XP i know how to format but
it shows me a message that says ''cannot find hard disk'' how do i
fix this problem?

Could some body tell me how to format windows vista and again
reinstall windows xp on my hard drive. thanks a lot

Can someone tell me how to format vista and install XP cause when i
insert xp cd a error message comes up saying ''can't read hard disk or
there is no hard disk'' something like that , so how do i format it if
i have vista installed first?

boot from the XP CD, follow the onscreen instructions.
If necessary, load the drivers for the SATA disk, that can be an issue with
some systems.

--
A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here!
CarGodZeroOne@xxxxxx
Change Alpha to Numeric to reply
"zalariz489" <crystaldesert@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8ffd9e9c-eb87-4d19-8deb-0d285d613cb3@xxxxxx

zalariz489 wrote:
You will need to have your SATA drive controller drivers on a floppy drive
and hit F6 to give the additional drivers early in the process. You can
also slipstream the controller drivers into your installation media if you
don't have a floppy (or USB floppy) drive.

Slipstream RAID or SATA controller drivers:
http://www.maximumpc.com/2005/01/how_to_slipstre.html
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattende...d2e6f79256fc8/

General information about replacing Vista with XP:

A. On an OEM (HP, Sony, etc.) computer:

1. Go to the OEM's website and look for XP drivers for your specific model
computer. If there are no XP drivers, then you can't install XP. End of
story. If there are drivers, download them and store on a CD-R or USB
thumbdrive; you'll need them after you install XP.

2. Check with the OEM - either from their tech support website or by calling
them - to see if you will void your warranty if you do this. If you will
void the warranty, you make the decision.

3. If the OEM does support XP on the machine, call them and see if you can
have downgrade rights and have them send you an XP restore disk. This will
be far the easiest and best way of getting XP on the machine.

4. If XP is supported on the machine but the OEM doesn't have an XP restore
disk for you, understand that you'll need to purchase a retail copy of XP
from your favorite online or brick/mortar store.

5. Also understand that you will need to do a clean install of XP so if you
have any data you want, back it up first.

6. If none of the above is applicable to you because you can't run XP on
that machine (see Item #1 above), return the computer and purchase one
running XP instead.

B. On a generic/home-built computer (from non-OEM company) - You will need
drivers for all your hardware. See the second link below for more details:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...alling_Windows - What
you will need on-hand

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!