peter_liu321
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Just bought HP a6542. Want to convert vista to xp. Who can help me? Thanks.
Well, you have to buy XP from someplace like Newegg, then you just install it like you would any OS. So basically you can't really convert Vista to XP, but you can put XP on it.
I think you just put in the disk and it will give you the option to erase vista, right?
I remember I helped a frend install XP in his HP a6000 last year, one BIOS option need to be modified, but I forget now, if you do not modify, window xp will not be installed like normally XP setup. I also got this info from web site last year, but I can not get it now. In addition, some drivers need to be downloaded like video card.
I tried downgrade from vista to xp at HP a6542.
When I setup using windows xp DVD, I got bule screen, then I run bios setup, modify SATA controller from RAID to IDE, run xp setup again, is ok, but at the screen that displays partition, it only shows C: 130 GB, (actually my hard drive is 650 GB), then I exit. what is the reason?