Make this crap go away!

New laptop. Vista. Sucks.

I need to know how to remove Vista and install XP Pro.

TIA

Carl

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:25:41 -0400, Carl Navarro <cnavarro@wcnet.org>
wrote:

>New laptop. Vista. Sucks.
>
>I need to know how to remove Vista and install XP Pro.
>
>TIA
>
>Carl

I like Vista on my new laptop, but if I didn't I would format the
drive and install XP. Assuming no Floppy, which does make formatting
easy, I'd create a bootable CD with DOS on it and any of the FDISK
clones available on the internet.

Carl Navarro wrote:
> New laptop. Vista. Sucks.
>
> I need to know how to remove Vista and install XP Pro.
>
> TIA
>

Boot from the XP CD and when it comes to choosing to format, tell it to
format using NTFS.
Then XP will install as usual.

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On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:25:41 -0400, Carl Navarro wrote:

> New laptop. Vista. Sucks.
>
> I need to know how to remove Vista and install XP Pro.

Exactly how I felt! However, things do work nicely (though sometimes
like trying to walk on a treacle-covered path), once I found how to get
Vista to keep itself to itself, but I had to turn that big nuisance User
Account Control off, both to prevent it's window popping up so much, and
also so that my U3 flash drive programs would work.

Also, I didn't want to lose the various Toshiba documentation etc
facilities that are installed.

But every now and then I start looking for my WinXP disc...

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On Tue, 01 May 2007 17:03:24 +0100, Maurice Batey
<maurice@bcs.removethis.org.uk> wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:25:41 -0400, Carl Navarro wrote:
>
>> New laptop. Vista. Sucks.
>>
>> I need to know how to remove Vista and install XP Pro.
>
> Exactly how I felt! However, things do work nicely (though sometimes
> like trying to walk on a treacle-covered path), once I found how to get
> Vista to keep itself to itself, but I had to turn that big nuisance User
> Account Control off, both to prevent it's window popping up so much, and
> also so that my U3 flash drive programs would work.
>
> Also, I didn't want to lose the various Toshiba documentation etc
> facilities that are installed.
>
> But every now and then I start looking for my WinXP disc...

I just needed to use the new Snipper accessory to capture some slides
that I have in PDF and wanted to put into Powerpoint. I could have
sued SnagIt or one of the other 3rd party screen capture utils, but
Vista had one built in. It worked very well.

That UAC is a pain though. Still, Ubuntu does the same thing when you
try to do something that should require admin privs.

"Carl Navarro" <cnavarro@wcnet.org> wrote in message
news:1ocd33hi1vdfk6vqtbcuf00dao6glpee3v@4ax.com...
> New laptop. Vista. Sucks.
>
> I need to know how to remove Vista and install XP Pro.
>
> TIA
>
> Carl
>
>
Laptops generally use their own special recovery disc and in your case that
recovery disc would have Vista as the OS. Get in contact with the store you
bought it from and tell them you want to buy a recovery disc with XP as the
OS.