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Old 05-07-2009   #1 (permalink)


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newbie here need a lil help

Hi Good Day to all of you,

i have an Acer Aspire 4710z which is a linux. it has windows vista in it.
i want to downgrade it to Windows XP. is there any other way rather than using a external FDD (my laptop doesn't have a FDD) or creating a custom XP installer.

because the problem is the Hard Disk Drivers when you install it with XP.

Hope you can give me tips or knowledge about this. thanks.


JMX22, Newbie


Last edited by jmx22; 05-07-2009 at 10:34 PM.. Reason: add items
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Old 05-07-2009   #2 (permalink)


Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: newbie here need a lil help

Hello JMX,

You could use a USB flash key drive instead to put the drivers on to use at boot. You may need to format it with FAT32 instead of NTFS though.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by jmx22 View Post
Hi Good Day to all of you,

i have an Acer Aspire 4710z which is a linux. it has windows vista in it.
i want to downgrade it to Windows XP. is there any other way rather than using a external FDD (my laptop doesn't have a FDD) or creating a custom XP installer.

because the problem is the Hard Disk Drivers when you install it with XP.

Hope you can give me tips or knowledge about this. thanks.


JMX22, Newbie
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Old 05-07-2009   #3 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate
 
 

Re: newbie here need a lil help

Thanks Sir Shawn!

i'll try this out today.
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Old 05-07-2009   #4 (permalink)


Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: newbie here need a lil help

You're welcome JMX.

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by jmx22 View Post
Thanks Sir Shawn!

i'll try this out today.
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