Hey guys,
I'm having a lot of compatibility issues with the pre-installed windows 7 home premium 64bit. Because of this, i want to downgrade to windows xp 32-bit but because the way that lenovo installed all the backing up features of windows 7, i dont want to lose windows 7. To do this, i partitioned my 500gb hard drive. I made 70gb for windows 7, 50 gb for suse linux, and the rest for windows xp. Now, when i insert my windows xp cd and attempt to boot from it from the bios menu, but after it loads the initial file set up, it gives me an error saying that it can't go any further, and that i should check for errors on my hd. i did check for the errors, and none were found. I then tried to install windows xp straight from windows 7, by double clicking on the cd icon. The installation menu came up but the "install windows xp" words were grayed out and i couldn't click the button. Is windows 7 not allowing me to install windows xp? What do i do? windows 7 has so many annoying issues and i really want to have a seperate downgraded partition. Please respond as soon as possible. Thank you.
btw, i have a lenovo u460 if this helps. thank you.
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i was wondering if i were to downgrade to windows 7 ultimate 32bit, should this fix most of the compatibility issues? For some odd reason, i can't get the windows xp emulation to work my ultimate edition, but even without this emulation, should most of the compatibility issues go away? I was thinking of trying this instead of windows xp, i haven't tested to see if it will give me the same problem as the windows xp downgrade. I'll update on that later.
I'm having a lot of compatibility issues with the pre-installed windows 7 home premium 64bit. Because of this, i want to downgrade to windows xp 32-bit but because the way that lenovo installed all the backing up features of windows 7, i dont want to lose windows 7. To do this, i partitioned my 500gb hard drive. I made 70gb for windows 7, 50 gb for suse linux, and the rest for windows xp. Now, when i insert my windows xp cd and attempt to boot from it from the bios menu, but after it loads the initial file set up, it gives me an error saying that it can't go any further, and that i should check for errors on my hd. i did check for the errors, and none were found. I then tried to install windows xp straight from windows 7, by double clicking on the cd icon. The installation menu came up but the "install windows xp" words were grayed out and i couldn't click the button. Is windows 7 not allowing me to install windows xp? What do i do? windows 7 has so many annoying issues and i really want to have a seperate downgraded partition. Please respond as soon as possible. Thank you.
btw, i have a lenovo u460 if this helps. thank you.
edit;;
i was wondering if i were to downgrade to windows 7 ultimate 32bit, should this fix most of the compatibility issues? For some odd reason, i can't get the windows xp emulation to work my ultimate edition, but even without this emulation, should most of the compatibility issues go away? I was thinking of trying this instead of windows xp, i haven't tested to see if it will give me the same problem as the windows xp downgrade. I'll update on that later.
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