Vista - Downgrade Vista Home Premium to XP Home

What is a clean install and how do you perform one? I would like to go back
from Vista to XP but do not know how. Consider me technologically illiterate.
I inserted the XP disk, but it says that I have a newer version of windows
and that the installation cannot complete. How do I install XP, whether just
XP as my OS, or dual OS (XP and Vista)?

That is what I tried, but it says that I cannot install due to a newer
version of windows was found and compatibility issues are preventing the
installation.

"nerex" <nerex@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:34670A70-0A4C-43E8-A276-B70B3E35F9C5@xxxxxxThe term "clean install" means that you install to a bare disk, ie a new or
freshly - formatted disk. There is no data present on the disk.

The first step is always to consider your backups, and to make sure your
data is safe.

The next step is to ensure that drivers for the OS install are available and
on hand. If you can't get XP drivers for your system, do not do the
downgrade.

Then, disconnect any hardware that isn't needed. Attach only the keyboard,
mouse, and monitor. Disconnect things like printers and scanners .

Finally, you can start. Boot from the XP home CD, go to the install, and
where you are asked where to install to, delete and re-create the
destination partition and then format it. This will ensure that there is
nothing about the disk's partition, format, or data to interfere with the
install.

HTH
-pk

"nerex" <nerex@xxxxxx> wrote in message
newsDBC69ED-84BA-40AC-B694-6D5E6F8E67DE@xxxxxxIn some cases, you may need to pop the drive out of that system, attach it
to another running system, and clear the system partition. USB2 drive
cases work great for this.

HTH
-pk

"nerex" <nerex@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F2915825-7459-42D4-BA6C-91D387FD1862@xxxxxxDoes your XP install CD say "Upgrade" on it?

-pk

Would it be at all possible for me to format my own drive/s and then install
XP?

Hi,

At the point where you reach the installation location screen (right after
the license agreement), select the existing system volume and delete it.
Then create a new one from the resulting free space. Format it (quick is
fine), and installation should be allowed to proceed. Note that all existing
data on that volume will be lost by this procedure, so if you have personal
files that you do not wish to lose you need to copy them to some other
location like a separate physical drive, CD/DVD, or thmub drive first.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"nerex" <nerex@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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