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Re: Downgrading Vista to Xp

First of all, you will need a copy of Windows XP and an appropriate license. Not only will it not work without it, nobody here condones "bypassing" any legal issues...

You won't need to partition your HDD as long as there's a partition available for XP to live in. If you want to get rid of Vista completely, just format the HDD, put in the XP CD and boot from it (the BIOS may need a tweak to allow this). The CD will walk you through the install, about 40 minutes typical.

One thing to be careful of: Vista supports certain hardware, but XP supports less. If XP does not support your hardware, you'll have problems. I recommend a phone call (or web site vsiit) to HP to ask about that.

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