Operating System Problems
#1
Posted 04 April 2008 - 07:07 AM
I have Windows XP SP2 on a disc right now.
The system will not let me load XP because Vista is a newer operating system.
How do I fix this?
Should I put my needed folders and such on a flash drive or anything before I change?
-Proverbs 4:7
#2
Posted 04 April 2008 - 12:10 PM
#3
Posted 04 April 2008 - 03:44 PM
#4
Posted 07 April 2008 - 02:15 AM
It erased the Vista OS.
It will not complete the installation of Windows XP.
I'm basically screwed right now. My laptop is about 1 month old and completely useless at this point...
<Pissed at Microsoft for creating the worst operating system ever.
-Proverbs 4:7
#5
Posted 07 April 2008 - 06:02 AM
Laptops built in with vista usually don't have the hardware drivers needed for win xp. May I ask why it will not complete the instalation (at what point it stops, and why, ie: what message it gives).
Back into the shadows once again...
#6
Posted 09 April 2008 - 06:52 AM
A certain file is unaccessable on the E: drive---which I think is the CD, but I'm not sure.
I can clarify what exactly the file is when I have my laptop around a computer that I can use to post here.
-Proverbs 4:7
#7
Posted 09 April 2008 - 09:26 AM
Create two dos partitions, one being 1 gig, and the rest in the other.
Install windows 98 on the first partition (the 1 gig). (shouldn't have a problem)
Download hardware drivers for laptop from internet.
Install.
On second partition, install windows xp.
Install Hardware drivers on XP partition.
Delete first partition.
send jase free crits/items.
working laptop with xp.(possibly. if it doesnt work, install 98 to one partitions. Then download hardware drivers. install.
then install XP to same partition and delete 98.
#8
Posted 10 April 2008 - 12:56 AM
I took it to a computer repair shop here in Stillwater this evening. I do not know how to run DOS, and I only got it to even open up DOS once---by accident.
So, right now I've taken it to a professional. Hopefully he fixes it tomorrow.
-Proverbs 4:7
#9
Posted 10 April 2008 - 07:15 AM
jase btw ;P
#11
Posted 07 June 2008 - 03:51 PM
The actual software to run Windows XP does not match that needed for Vista.
So, you can go between Windows 98, 2000, and XP all easy, and you can even update those to Vista. However, you don't simply get to run a disk and switch back to XP or the others.
A computer repair guy did the work on mine, basically downloading a bunch of drivers and such to jig-rig a way to make it all operate.
-Proverbs 4:7
#12
Posted 05 July 2008 - 08:00 PM
#14
Posted 29 September 2008 - 12:51 PM
By jig-rig you mean he wiped the CD with a bit of cloth and installed it, then charged you 50 quid?
That's what I'd do if I were him
In fact I have done that in the past, lol.
Props on being proud of ripping people off.
Anyways, like he already said, he had to instal drivers. Laptops that come with Vista don't have the drivers needed for XP, obviously. Never had to do it myself, but I heard it isn't that easy. Especially not for people who aren't that familiar with computers.
Back into the shadows once again...
#16
Posted 12 November 2008 - 01:41 AM
word.I hate Windows Vista.
congratulations to MS for making an OS that 'has the same functunality as XP but uses more HD space, RAM, system resources and is slower to boot, but looks flashier and complete and utter n00bs might find easier to use'
TBH, the only reason i ever changed from 98 to XP was because of NM, 98 only lets you log four alts while XP is unlimited. Everything else i use works perfectly well in 98.
remember when Win95 came out and everyone hated it? it took certain applications, in particular the game 'Red Alert', to convince people that it was actually better than DOS. although the odd game existed that was made for W95, it was basically RA that made game developers specifically make games for the new OS (and gamers flock to it and W98). Vista as far as i have researched does not actually have any advance in ability (like the increaced resolution of W95 or the process management of XP) that can be harnessed , it just has more 'user friendly' bits, ie using more memory to achieve the same thing.
oh aint it funny how time slips away
Edited by joanna, 12 November 2008 - 01:48 AM.
#17
Posted 12 November 2008 - 02:02 AM
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