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How Do You Downgrade From Vista To XP Without Reformating?

April 26, 2017CD Computers downgrade install installation reformating Vista Windows XP

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How Do You Downgrade From Vista To XP Without Reformating?

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If you are as unhappy with Windows Vista as I am and want to downgrade back to XP there is hope. Below are instructions on how I downgraded my Vista box back to XP without reformatting. The first thing you need is a genuine XP installation CD. If you don’t have one then you can use the start from scratch feature that comes with an XP recovery disk. Before you start make sure you have several gigs of free space on your existing hard drive. In addition make sure you back up your data. Start by inserting you’re Windows XP CD and then booting up the pc. Make sure that you’re pc is booting up via the CD ROM. If you can’t, you will have to go into your pc’s boot menu and change that option. If you can’t get it to boot from CD in the boot menu, then you can go to support. Microsoft.com and search for Q310994 which is a free setup boot disk. When XP starts press the R button so that you can open up the recovery console, you should then be prompted to enter a Windows installation type usually i