How to easily get rid of Vista and install XP
I gave it a chance, but my patience wore out. Vista is no more on my laptop, back to XP pro, but the trip was bumpy and filled with alot of pinched foreheads.
In my scenario, I had an XP Pro ISO which when I made bootable, and attempted to boot and install, was missing drivers for my Inspiron 1525. Resulting in the dreaded “Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer” error message.
Even making the iso/disk bootable was a pain in the butt, but what made the process tolerable and eventually easy was nLite. This software allowed me to take my ISO, add the missing drivers, add SP3, make the whole thing bootable, and even write the CD.
They even have vLite for those who want to cutomize a Vista install (I guess someone may want to …).
January 5th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I thought you were going to say “Linux!”
February 8th, 2009 at 11:47 am
my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with �we leave it to you to decide�.
April 9th, 2009 at 5:38 am
You can suffer from ‘that’ if the xp installer is either old or VERY old.
I had the same issue with trying to install onto an acer laptop - the only installer that worked was the one that had sp2 as part of the install - both the sp1 and ‘plain’ xp cds failed the way you describe.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
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October 29th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Best you could change the post subject title My Portal Project » Blog Archive » How to easily get rid of Vista and install XP to something more generic for your subject you create. I liked the the writing withal.